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In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.
They Have Changed Their Face
1971 ‘...hanno cambiato faccia’ Directed by Corrado Farina
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Adolfo Celi as a corporate Vampire living in a giant villa in a desolate, suffocatingly fogged out ghost town? Yeah, I’m in. An atmospheric neo gothic satire on capitalism framed with giallo stylings is definitely a way to lure me in—hook, line, and sinker. The score is a real banger too.
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A macabre satire on capitalism that reminded me of an Elio Petri thriller with a vampiric bent. Unfortunately there's not much horror besides the gothic atmosphere, but the dealings of the Nosferatu Corporation are quite frightening in their timeliness or rather timelessness.
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Two personalities meet at a secluded villa in the Italian mountains, one played by Adolfo Celli and the other by Giuliano Esperanti. Celli's a mega capitalist who owns a wide range of industries and seeks control over minds in order to steer tastes and politics of the masses his way, which is kind of totalitarian. Esperanti arrives at the villa in the mountains ready to accept an offer to be CEO at a Celli owned auto company. The villa is situated in mountains often shrouded in fog outside a village where no one speaks. The main question is if Esperanti, a young engineer somewhere in the middle of the social and economic class structure. will go over to the Celli…
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Day 26. Today we are going to watch an Italian horror flick from 1970-1975.
The most unforeboding Nosferatu ever, I got more from a baked potato.....www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHrOvO7hWhA
Bored meetings, commercials whilst you use a shower, have sex. No reading, and certainly no baby making! I'm sure detergents would be up in this current climate regardless of harmful chemicals.
Best bits L.S.D advert , and the topless hitchhiker. Quite frankly I'd set my squad of boy racers on this.
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June Scavenger: 13/30
#7. An Unwatched Giallo.
http://letterboxd.com/scumbalina/list/alone-out-of-my-comfort-zone-june-scavenger/.______________________________________________________________
I didn't know this was a vampire movie until a day or two ago. It's pretty interesting to see a modernized Dracula story through a stylish Giallo lens. Adolfo Celi made a baller-ass 70's corporate vampire as "Giovanni Nosferatu". Some strange quirks include the adorable/not-at-all intimidating band of Fiat's that patrol the grounds, the secretary's bizarre eyebrows and of course the bourgeoisie filmmaker's LSD Nosferatu campaign at the end. It all sounds amazing but the reality is that it lacked something integral that would have pushed it from being an interesting movie to a really good movie. Still a fun curiosity for lover's of the genre.
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..::Selection for Obscure Octoberfest 2013 Month::..
"Men don't choose power, it chooses them." - Adolfo Celi as (Engineer Nosferatu)
An everyman car corporation office worker Alberto Valle, gets the once in a life opportunity of promotion to the board. Hes invited for the weekend to visit the mountain region estate of the head of the company Giovanni Nosferatu, to be given the news officially. Only during his brief stay Alberto gets increasingly paranoid that Mr N isn't your average boss and that his guaranteed promotion will come at a price hes not prepared to pay.
How the hell have I never stumbled over Corrado Farina's 'They Have Changed Their Face' before, is beyond me. Its muddled at times but one…
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Terza Visione 2021: Film #7
Alice in Consumerland.
Of course Dracula is the one behind every annoying commercial...
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One of the more pronounced among the Italian polirical horror films. It isn't very effective as a genre piece, but gets by through sheer weirdness and some strong work by Adolfo Celi. It is no Death Laid an Egg, but it remains unnerving.
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Ideological criticism dressed in genre tropes and ocher tones. I don't think it is particularly smart as a political text; like with quite a few films from the Italian left I have the nagging suspicion that what really bugs its director isn't capitalist exploitation of nature and humankind, but rather modernity itself - a modernity the description of which is always in danger of tipping over into fullscale misogyny, homophobia and antisemitism. And which is pitted against a rather juvenile anarchist fantasy world filled with free men and willing, topless women.
Doesn't help either that Esperati is a decidedly dull lead ... and still, I ended up kind of enjoying this, thanks to a constant level of lowkey wackiness and…
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Hanno cambiato faccia estreava há 50 anos na Itália.
Me espanta o fato desse filme ser tão pouco conhecido e a carreira do Farina na tela grande ter sido tão breve, isso aqui é brilhante. O que aconteceria se o vampirismo do século XX fosse o capitalismo? Tudo é transformado em propaganda e lucro e definitivamente que está por trás disso não morre, encerrar com uma frase do Marcuse vai na jugular (sic) e se mantem mais atual do que nunca passados 50 anos.
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Eine Dracula-Variation, in dem das Schloss des unheiligen Fürsten von acht Fiat Nuova 500 mit kleinen behelmten Männern am Steuer bewacht wird – unbezahlbar. Darüber hinaus ein wunderbarer Herbst-Gruselfilm mit ausgesucht schönen Locations. Wem die politischen und konsumkritischen Messages etwas zu dick aufgetragen sein sollten, kommt damit auch atmosphärisch auf seine Kosten.
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Der Film wurde heute englisch untertitelt erstmals in einem deutschen Kino gezeigt und erhielt den Titel "Wettlauf gegen den Tod". Der düstere, im November gedrehte Film bildet Analogien zwischen der Draculageschichte und dem Kapitalismus aus linker Sichtweise und amüsiert auch liberale oder konservative Gemüter mit völlig verstrahlten Werbungen, an deren Höhepunkt sich eine für LSD stellt - natürlich auch erhältlich in der Familienpackung.