Giulio Questi – Il Passo (1964)

Footsteps” is a medium-length film of 34 minutes directed by Giulio Questi in 1964. A real jewel of Italian underground cinema, unknown to most and brought into the open in 2009 on the occasion of the 66th Venice International Film Festival.

This is the first of the three episodes that make up the film Amori Pericolosi aka Dangerous Loves (Giulio Questi, Carlo Lizzani, Alfredo Giannetti, 1964), an Italian-French co-production inspired by the tradition of the Grand Guignol (the Parisian theater, founded by Oscar Metenier, specializing in shows both gruesome and gory).

Footsteps is undoubtedly the best episode, the result of the connection between Questi and editor Franco “Kim” Arcalli that beautifully blends style with technique to produce a final, truly amazing result.

If the direction of Questi proceeds through a series of sublime shots enhanced by the chiaroscuro of Leonida Barboni (brother of the more famous Enzo), the editing of Arcalli is very fast, without pause or nearly so, with the speed of avant-garde cinema. Regarding this film, Questi recalls that “in Footsteps there is exemplary editing, probably the best of of Arcalli’s career.”

Also worthy of note are the interpretation of Juliette Mayniel (then partner of Vittorio Gassman) and the soundtrack of Ivan Vandor, which contribute to the success of this wonderful period, black comedy, whose gothic atmosphere prefigures Questi’s style in his later works, and which has nothing to be ashamed of in comparison to the films of Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda.

IL PASSO (Giulio Questi, 1964).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	33mn 37s
Size: 	119 MiB
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Resolution: 	640x358 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, Italian