The Fifth Cord
Directed by: Luigi Bazzoni
(Blue Underground)
Director Luigi Bazzoni can’t quite equal Dario Argento in his take on the Giallo genre of Italian crime films. Yet this twisted, absorbing murder tale finds a uniquely pitiless, violent style. Franco Nero sports a great ’70s moustache as he seeks a killer to prove his own innocence. Scored by Ennio Morricone, when he was doing his strangest work.
Mark Palermo
Categories: Best of the year (2006)
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
