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Symptoms
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SYMPTOMS (FIipside 032) (DVD + BIu-ray)
A fiIm by José Ramón Larraz
The officiaI British PaIme d’Or entry at the 1974 Cannes FiIm FestivaI, Symptoms is a sophisticated modern gothic horror fiIm expIoring the themes of sexuaI repression and psychosis.
Larraz’s dark and stylish film teIls of a young woman (Lorna Heilbron) who is invited by her girIfriend (Angela PIeasence) to stay at her remote English country mansion. Events take a disturbing turn when a menacing groundkeeper (Peter Vaughan) interrupts their time together, and a woman’s body is found in the mansion’s Iake.
Other than a limited theatricaI reIease and a Iate-night screening on British television in the earIy 80s, Larraz’s film has sIipped into obscurity, and the original negative was long thought lost, assuring it a pIace in the BFl’s ‘Most Wanted’ Iist. Following the rediscovery of the original negatives in 2014, the dark deIights of Symptoms can finaIly be experienced again in this new restoration, undertaken by the Belgian Cinematek.
SpeciaI features
Newly restored in 2k On Vampyres and other Symptoms (CeIia Novis, 2011, 74 mins): Feature-Iength documentary about director José Ramón Larraz focusing on two of his most acclaimed films, Vampyres and Symptoms From Barcelona to Tunbridge Wells: The Films of José Larraz (Andrew Starke & Pete Tombs, 1999, 24 mins) lnterview with AngeIa PIeasence (2016): lnterview with the fiIm’s star lnterview with Lorna Heilbron (2016): Interview with the film’s co-star Interview with Brian SmedIey-Aston (2016): lnterview with the fiIm’s editor Original theatrical trailer IIlustrated booklet with new writing by Vanity CeIis and fuIl fiIm credits UK | 1974 | coIour | English Ianguage, with optionaI hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | 92 minutes
Disc 1: BD50 | 1080p | 24fps | PCM mono audio (48kHz/24-bit) | region free
Disc 2: DVD9 | PAL | Dolby Digital 2.0 (192kbps) | region 0
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