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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https://nitro.download/view/3618F55CDAF4ABB/IL_PASSO_(Giulio_Questi,_1964).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1B2DDDAE98F9B39/IL_PASSO_(Giulio_Questi,_1964)-eng.srt
https://nitro.download/view/07A8AA4923168C3/IL_PASSO_(Giulio_Questi,_1964)-it.srt

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English, Italian

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Synopsis:
Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul’s acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.

3.00GB | 1h 49m | 788×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1F3D6562636CDC7/Les_cousins_(1959)_–_Claude_Chabrol.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English (Muxed)

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Synopsis:
‘Pierre, a humble employee in a toy factory, has been married to Anne for just three years, but already he senses they may be drifting apart. To avoid an acrimonious break-up later on, the couple agree to separate. Try as he might, Pierre seems to be incapable of starting an affair with another woman, not even with Véronique, one of his colleagues. At a party given by their friends, Pierre and Anne meet up and settle their differences. They decide to go on an alpine holiday together but their truce proves shortlived…’
– Films de France

1.10GB | 1h 23mn | 908×568 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5A635FCE364EBD5/Un.couple.1960.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:None

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