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The Fifth Cord ( Italian: Giornata nera per l'ariete, lit. "Black Day for Aries") is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Luigi Bazzoni. The film's Italian title reprises Dario Argento 's practice of using animals in the titles of his thriller films. [1] The film is based on a novel with the same name by D.M. Devine.
The Fifth Cord: Directed by Luigi Bazzoni. With Franco Nero, Silvia Monti, Wolfgang Preiss, Ira von Fürstenberg. A maverick, heavy-drinking journalist pursues a killer who is targeting acquaintances of his, prompting the police to brand him a suspect in their investigation.
Police seem powerless to halt a mass murderer's campaign of madness and mayhem.
Luigi Bazzoni’s The Fifth Cord is a stylish Argento-spawned giallo. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage changed the game, and with the Italians, there shall be no subtlety about that fact.
The Fifth Cord Reviews. The overstuffed plot is overshadowed by the visual compositions. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 4, 2021. It's so much more than the murderous mayhem that...
Nov 21, 2016 · The Fifth Cord is your standard Italian horror film of the early 70’s, with Nero playing an alcoholic reporter out to solve a murder mystery before everyone in his social circle winds up dead.
May 1, 2019 · Scott Nye. May 1, 2019. In his commentary track for this release, film critic Travis Crawford cautions himself against making any sort of superlatives in saying that Luigi Bazzoni’s The Fifth Cord is one of the best giallo films not made by the genre’s most eminent auteurs – your Mario Bavas and Sergio Martinos and Lucio Fulcis and such.
The Fifth Cord lives at the libidinal intersection of this precise interplay of repressed sexuality, abuse of a sexual partner, and sexual arousal of a violent scene.
Their first collaboration, the paranoid giallo thriller The Fifth Cord (1971), bumbles through a serviceable but largely incoherent plot buoyed by Storaro’s kaleidoscopic palette and furtive gestures.
When a man is brutally assaulted, washed-up, whisky-swilling journalist Andrea Bild is assigned to report on the case. Before long, the maniac strikes again, this time with fatal results. As the body count rises, Andrea falls under suspicion himself, making it crucial that he crack the case.
