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(aka "The Strangler")
Directed by Paul Vecchiali
USA 1970
An unconventional French giallo released before the subgenre’s popularity boom
resulting from filmmakers like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, THE STRANGLER
centers on Émile (Jacques Perrin,
The Young Girls of Rochefort), a handsome young man targeting women he
believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to Émile’s
suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective assigned to
track down the killer, resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical
methods to get his man with the assistance of Anna, a beautiful woman who
believes herself to be a potential victim. *** Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. |
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Theatrical Release: May 1970 (Cannes Film Festival)
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Distribution | Altered Innocence - Region FREE - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:36:05.500 | |
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1. 66:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 24,772,389,461 bytesFeature: 23,566,135,296 bytes Video Bitrate: 29.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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DTS-HD Master Audio French 1087 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1087 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 1.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit) |
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Release Information: Studio: Altered Innocence
1. 66:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 24,772,389,461 bytesFeature: 23,566,135,296 bytes Video Bitrate: 29.98 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • "Lost Boys and Sad Girls": A Video Essay by Alexandra-Heller Nicholas (15:08)• New Trailer (1:35) • Other Trailers
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Altered Innocence use a DTS-HD Master mono track (24-bit) in the
original French language. The Strangler
has some nasty aggression - almost exclusively represented, overtly,
through flashbacks. Where the 'present day' murders are extremely
passive with 'presumption' rather than graphic struggles / screams. The score
was by Roland Vincent (Paul Vecchiali's Femmes femmes and
Once More)
also known for his compositions and arrangements made for Michel Delpech
during the 1960s and 1970. It sounds clean and without flaws in the,
authentically flat, lossless. Altered Innocence offer optional English
or Spanish subtitles on their Region FREE
Blu-ray.
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"Paging Dr. Freud! - paging Dr. Freud!"
Wow. Paul Vecchiali's The Strangler
("L'étrangleur") characters have a barrel full of psycho-sexual
issues... Emile (Jacques Perrin) was traumatized as a child when he
witnessed a tearful woman murdered by strangulation using a white scarf.
As an adult he reproduces this in serial format - seeking, finding and
chocking depressed, lonely women - to, presumably, end their misery.
Inspector Simon Dancrey (Julien Guiomar) poses as a journalist to entrap
Emile. Anna (Eva Simonet - surprisingly press attaché for Krzysztof
Kieslowski's
Three Colors: Blue!) insists on helping and we discover that she
knows him from the past... Add to the mix a lazy, handsome, thief (Paul
Barge) who follows Emile to rob the women after they have expired. This
is twisted enough to be considered an early French
Giallo.
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