The rise of k madness "About death, about love" is an excellent example of non-standard European cinema, far from Hollywood cliches and formats. Beginning as a thrash-horror with ridiculous heroes exterminating ridiculous zombies, this film gradually increases the degree of madness, and the reality of the characters and the limits of their permissible actions become more and more ghostly.
A young loser, Francesco Dellamorte, works as a cemetery watchman and lives in a dilapidated cemetery house. The mentally retarded Nyagi helps him. Francesco is deeply unhappy - he has, except for Nyaga, only one friend who asserts himself at his expense; no girlfriend, a stupid job. Only Nyagi could be more miserable if he was aware of his situation, but he only watches TV, catches fallen leaves and says one word: "Nyam!" In addition to their misfortunes, the cemetery in their town is not easy - any person buried there, sooner or later, climbs out of the grave as a bloodthirsty zombie who must be shot before he has done untold harm. So, with the permission of the police, Francesco is carrying a revolver. One day a young widow appears in the cemetery.
At first, nothing betrays the affiliation of the film to non-genre cinema. On the contrary, all in the canons of cheap horrors. Stupid zombies, shooting, graveyard sex. But, it seems, the possibilities of development closer to the middle of the film are exhausted. And then the action breaks into a monstrous spiral, at each turn of which (the beginning of the turn is indicated by the meeting of Francesco with the next reincarnation of his love) the absurdity of what is happening increases, Dellamorte finally loses his head in the dance of love and death.
Ironic decadent style, lack of claims to “high art”, crazy humor – that’s what distinguishes this film, hung between thrash and arthouse. Most of all, it resembles the recent Seven Psychopaths, but with a mystical element. Two forces fight for the soul of the main character - love and death. Or maybe they’re not really fighting, they’re just acting in our world, and we’re all standing in their way. Francesco lives almost in poverty in a cemetery - but what does success mean in a world where anyone can die or go mad with love? And perhaps Nyagi, who lives one day, who knows nothing but music, television, nature and simple physical labor, is far better in this world than “normal” people?
The movie is not for everyone, but the movie is great. Philosophy under the mask of bloody zombie thrash, decadent humor without brakes.
9 out of 10
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