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MOVIE INFORMATON
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064073/
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Adrienne Larussa, Georges Wilson, Tomas Milian, Mavie, Antonio Casagrande, Ignazio Spalla, Max Steffen Zacharias, Raymond Pellegrin & Massimo Sarchielli
Alternative titles: Perversion Story, The Conspiracy of Torture, Liens d'amour et de sang
Year: 1969
Genre: Drama
Languages: Italian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Ripper: gungi (originally uploaded to KG)
Source: French DVD
RIP SPECS
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File Size (in bytes) ............................: 838,551,594 bytes
Runtime ............................................: 1:29:37
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Video Bitrate ...................................: 1048 kb/s
Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.287 bpp
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Audio Codec ...................................: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Sample Rate ...................................: 48000 Hz
Audio Bitrate ...................................: 192 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR
No. of audio streams .......................: 1
PLOT SUMMARY
Set in 17th Century Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci whom he keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle and sexualy abuses her as well. Beatrice then plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano, to plan Francesco's murder.
COMMENT
An antique theatre drama with a modern structure, that is Lucio Fulci's grand oeuvre: Beatrice Cenci, released in 1969.
The film opens on the end of the story, as Beatrice Cenci and her family are about to be executed, after having been sentenced to death by the Pope for the murder of their father, Francesco Cenci. This opening scene introduces a structure made of flashbacks, an unusual construct for a film aiming at recreating a classic tragedy from the Italian Renaissance.
Apart from this innovative structure, it looks like Lucio Fulci wanted to come up with a typical historical movie: sophisticated costumes, impressive locations, hundreds of extras, the whole thing feels like a big production with unusually high budgets, aiming at bringing XVIth century Rome back to life. Fulci probably thought this film should have elevated him to the auteur status. But it did not. Maybe because he was trying a little too hard. Maybe because he thought the Cenci tragedy would allow him to prove he was good at directing actors. Directing actors is obviously not Fulci's main skill. Thus, the acting comes across as if it was classic theatre, where comedians play in a Shakespearian manner - a little overacted.
Partly because of its flaws, Beatrice Cenci is a very interesting film: it is a twisted historical movie. Behind Fulci's apparent willingness to stay true to the codes of the genre, his obsessions arise, and soon neither the dialogues nor the acting really matter anymore: it's the bodies, again and again. Insisting close-ups on flesh and bodies in pain come back, in typical Fulci's style. The whole film is a long and painful torture, which pace is set by the construction in flashbacks: it is about a man torturing his family, both psychologically and physically, and then about the Church torturing the same family to make them admit they killed this man (again, Fulci's extremely critical point of view on Religion, as in Don't torture a duckling). Inevitably, this leads to a fatal ending - we know it from the very first scene.
Finally, it's a film built on the opposition of two characters: the ogre, Francesco Cenci. Inhuman, corrupted, shameless, cruel, sweating. And his daughter, Beatrice Cenci. Pure, idealistic, faithful, strong, beautiful. She will be the one deciding to kill her father, with the help of her lover. This is when we will realise that the ogre and her daughter, while seemingly opposite, are in fact very close to each other. Like him, she is merciless.
(From Killing in Style blog)
WHO WAS BEATRICE CENCI?
Beatrice Cenci was executed in Rome in September 1599: she was sixteen, and hauntingly beautiful. Her crime was the murder of her father, a member of one of the greatest Roman families, but his cruel treatment of her, including incestuous rape, moved the people of the city to take her side.
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