Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme giallo / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.
Our read · Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive giallo · thriller · gothic entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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