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(aka "Le Orme" or "Footprints on the Moon" or "Primal Impulse")
directed by Luigi Bazzoni
Italy 1975
Alice (Florinda Bolkan), a translator living
in Italy, wakes from a disturbing dream (of an astronaut
left to die on the moon, a scene she recalls from a film) to
discover that she has lost three days after having a
breakdown and running out in the middle of a conference. The
only clues to where she may have been are a postcard for a
hotel in Garma, a missing earring, and an unfamiliar yellow
dress with a bloodspot hanging in her wardrobe. Alice takes
off to Garma and finds herself remembering details of the
place (she requests a specific room in the hotel). Paula, an
“imaginative little girl” (Nicoletta Elmi) calls her Nicole
and claims that she last saw her on the beach a couple days
before. Alice also makes the acquaintance of Henry (Peter
McEnery), a biologist who lives on the island. When Alice
presses Paula for more details about Nicole, the girl is
less sure that Alice and Nicole are one in the same (Nicole
had red hair) and Mrs. Ines (Lila Kedrova), a vacationing
widow does not remember seeing Alice. The dream imagery from
the astronaut film becomes more vivid (we learn that the
movie character Dr. Blackmann, played by Klaus Kinski, is
experimenting with “cosmic isolation”) and Alice learns from
Paula that Nicole was always hiding in the woods and that
she tried to destroy a document about astronautics. Paula’s
stray dog friend Fox also turns up with a red wig and the
wigmaker also recognizes Alice as Nicole. A boutique that
carries the same yellow dress found in her apartment sends
her a hat and a purse with the name “Nicole” engraved on it.
Alice discovers that Nicole bought a pair of scissors from
another shop and she buys a replacement pair. Even the offer
of a sympathetic ear from Henry is suspicious when Mrs. Ines
points out that Alice’s pin was made by a Garma artisan who
died years ago (suggesting that Alice/Nicole may have been
to Garma even before her lost three days). |
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Theatrical Release: 1 February 1975 (Italy)
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DVD Review: Shameless Screen Entertainment - Region 0 - PAL
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Shameless Screen Entertainment Region 0 - PAL |
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Runtime | 1:32:24 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
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NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. |
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Audio | English (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono); Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono) | |
Subtitles | English, English (for Italian on English track), Italian (hidden), none | |
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Release Information: Studio: Shameless Screen Entertainment Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 12 |
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Shameless Screen Entertainment's transfer of FOOTPRINTS is a composite restoration effort that augments an attractive quality anamorphic Italian transfer (which at 1.78:1 actually reveals more picture information that the seemingly OAR 1.66:1 German Kinowelt broadcast) with several bits of footage present only in the Italian version (the film would run at 96:34 at 24fps which is 4 minutes longer than the US tape which was not a PAL-NTSC conversion as its 25fps running time corresponds to the 88:33 time of the English-language Greek tape).
A few sequences multi-lingual sequences that featured film print subtitles (multi-lingual bits that were the same on all dub tracks) have had the Italian subtitled shots substituted with English subtitled ones (notably the conference flashback) while one scene featuring Klaus Kinski (who speaks English throughout) retains the Italian print subtitles. English subtitles are included for scenes present in the Italian version only as well as English subtitles for the entire Italian track. A hidden third subtitle option provides Italian subtitles for the entire film as well. The film's English language opening title sequence, rare English trailer, and a video trailer for the U.S. Force Video release under the title PRIMAL IMPULSE are included along with an image gallery. A Shameless Trailer show includes trailers for their first 20 releases (including a newly created trailer for FOOTPRINTS). |
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Italian print
subtitles for one of the multi-lingual scenes that are the same on
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