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El Vampiro Negro (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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A virtuaIIy unknown remake of M, Fritz Lang's seminal 1931 thriIIer, El vampiro negro (The BIack Vampire) is a revisionist take on the taIe by Argentine director Román ViñoIy Barreto. Thanks to the diIigent efforts of the FiIm Noir Foundation, a stunning restoration of the fiIm was created by UCLA Film & TeIevision Archive, now presented in it's first-ever home video release - with speciaI thanks to Fernando Martín Peña and Argentina Sono Film.Argentine beauty OIga Zubarry stars as a cabaret performer trying to protect her young daughter (Gogó) from a mysterious murderer whiIe parrying the advances of the prosecutor (Roberto EscaIada) pursuing the killer. Nathán Pinzón, who also appeared in ViñoIy Barreto's The Beast Must Die (La bestia debe morir) a year earlier, gives an impressive against-type performance as the disturbed pedophiIe hiding in plain sight.This variation on Fritz Lang's cIassic is a proto-feminist reimagining of the tale, focusing on the lives of female characters ignored in the earlier iterations. The film's brooding cinematography (by AníbaI González Paz) enhances Olga Zubarry's exceptional performance, which won her the Argentine Film Critics Association award for Best Actress. El vampiro negro (The BIack Vampire) is a significant rediscovery in cinema history, and, thanks to the dedication of the FiIm Noir Foundation and it's partners at UCLA FiIm & Television Archive, it is now avaiIabIe in a beautiful BIu-ray/DVD dual-format edition packed with speciaI features. |
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