Italian Horror Film ‘The Spiral’ Earns Standing Ovation at Venice Film Festival
Paolo Strippoli’s Italian horror thriller received a nine-minute standing ovation during its Venice Film Festival premiere. Critics praised Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s performance as a demon negotiating with a vain matriarch in the Faustian tale.
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The Spiral review – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is hilarious as a demon cutting a deal with a vain matriarch
Venice film festival: Tedeschi gives a career best performance as the mysterious stranger who visits a wealthy Italian family to prey on their pampered weaknesses Everyone in the movie business has earnestly learned to call film-makers “storytellers”, despite the fact that film-makers don’t necessarily have to deliver conventional narrative and that so many of them are in any case no good at the old-fashioned business of storytelling. But this last point certainly doesn’t apply to Italian ...
By Peter Bradshaw in Venice
Read full article →‘The Spiral’ Review: Paolo Strippoli’s Lurid Faustian Tragedy Shores Up His Reputation as Italy’s New Horror Virtuoso
We don’t get a close enough look to see if the Devil actually wears Prada, but regardless, in Paolo Strippoli’s new horror romp “The Spiral,” she’s very chicly turned out indeed: Cool, crisp and collected in a tightly belted camel trenchcoat, hair pristinely bobbed and lips perfectly rouged, wielding a cigarette like a laser pointer. […]
By Guy Lodge
Read full article →Venice Home Crowd Gives Italian Horror ‘The Spiral’ 9-Minute Standing Ovation
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi shines as a devilish femme fatale in Paolo Strippoli’s campy thriller.
By Scott Roxborough
Read full article →‘The Spiral’ Review: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Is The Devil In Disguise In Paolo Strippoli’s Fiendishly Fun Horror-Thriller – Venice Film Festival
There will be people wondering why Paolo Strippoli’s unashamedly commercial horror-thriller The Spiral is in Competition and not in one of the festival’s many increasingly hard-to-navigate sidebars. But thank God it is; with a tsunami of documentary titles and a bunch of reality-based features that effectively make us all complicit in the rise of neo-fascism […]
By Damon Wise
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