The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive (1972)
aka L’arma, l’ora, il movente
Genre: Mystery | Thriller | Giallo
Country: Italy | Director: Francesco Mazzei
Language: Italian | Subtitles: English
& German (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 100mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv – 1024×562 – 25fps – 1.82gb
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069730/
A young clergyman, Don, has had two loves, and now he chooses one of them, Julia, as his only one lover. But soon Don is found dead in the chapel. And there is a witness, Felcio, who tells almost nothing about the murder to the police. But the murderer continues to take people’s lives, and finally Felcio decides to inform of the very secret of the first murder…
The cleverness of it all is in the way the script chooses to focus on the relationships between the characters than to elaborate murder after murder. The tensions between all of them are more visible than usual. At the same time, it also shows the private life of the detective investigating the case. Disenchanted but always professionnal, he gives some touch of humour which always hit the mark.
Some scenes are quite surreal & nightmarish as when the nuns decide to expiate the crimes the priest committed before he died. They just whip their bare back with screaming preys til they faint. Just incredible. The other FX are very effective and the murders scenes look impressive : master Carlo Rambaldi (King Kong, ET) did it again.
The actors are all first rate : Renzo Montagnani proves he really can act, Eva Czemerys is always as magnetic & mysterious than in Giuseppe Bennatti’s poor L’ASSASSINO HA RISERVATO NOVE POLTRONE and Bedy Moratti shows some incredible capacity to be both & strong at the same time in one single scene. Amazing actress.
L’arma, l’ora, il movente is a superior giallo in quality. Sleaze addicts & euroschlockers will be disappointed but movie buffs will certainly go for this very entertairning and chilling suspenser til the very end.
The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive (1972)
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