You can find a full review in german here.

Despite my prior hype I really wasn't sure how this would turn out but let me tell you guys that with Occhiali Neri Dario Argento is back with full force. His first directional effort in ten years has got everything that made him so influental in the 70s and 80s. The look is absolutely gorgeous, the music both mesmerizing and striking and there is some really weird stuff going on that somehow manages to be hillarious and frightening intense at the same time.

While Argentos most movies post Opera lacked that eye popping visuals while being kinda unspectacular plot wise, his new film succesfully handles both plot and style. Just as Sleepless, this is like another Best Of where Argento quotes himself and especially Suspiria multiple times and yet still manages to get something new out of his unique style. That being sad, Occhiali Neri is actually the first of Argentos movies that made me really root for its characters. It's not often in his filmography that a death actually made me feel sad. Kind of proves that the script really has got something going for it this time.

I'm very sure that passionate Argento fans will dig Occhiali Neri just as much as I did. Taking all his great signatures and adapting them in a modern way was highly satisfying. Sure, it might not rank between Argentos very best work from the 70s and 80s but for me it might actually be his best movie since Opera. Well, maybe since The Stendhal Syndrome. Catching Occhiali Neri at its world premiere (!) at the Berlinale together with Adrian and seeing the maestro himself on stage presenting it was an absolutely amazing event either way.

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