Mother Of Tears [2007]

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The trilogy is loosely based on characters from " Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow", a section of Thomas De Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis. The score also incorporates electronic music and influences from Simonetti's earlier work on Argento films, such as Suspiria and Phenomena. She uses this to avoid a police detective, though she is forced to kill a witch, Katerina, who catches and corners her on the train. According to Jessica Harper, "the witch was a ninety-year-old ex-hooker Dario had found on the streets of Rome.

This early script began immediately after Inferno, with a witch who survived the destruction of Mater Tenebrarum's home watching a detective ( Ennio Fantastichini) investigating a series of murders at a university. Her mother was a powerful white witch who dared to challenge and severely wound Mater Suspiriorum, the eldest and wisest of the Three Mothers.That was the title the originally contacted American sales agent Myriad wanted for international distribution. The soundtrack was released around the same time as the film's Italian wide release (31 October 2007) by Edel Music.

Firstly Mother of Tears has many elements that make an Argento film, ravishing photography, an eye for the bizarre and obscure details, brutal violence and gore and all presented in a dream like and magical world.Sarah locates De Witt, an alchemist whom Marta mentioned as someone who could help her against Mater Lachrymarum. Maitland McDonagh of Film Journal International panned the film, describing it as "sadly lacking in the baroque atmosphere and visual aesthetic that elevated Argento above the horror hacks—it's flatly lit, indifferently staged, coarsely violent and brutally straightforward. On 17 May 2007 at 9:30 am Myriad premiered 20 minutes of footage from the film, consisting of eight lengthy scenes, to a packed audience.

I would say (without giving away the whole story) that this is one of the best Argento films to date! This was followed by a limited theatrical run in June courtesy of Myriad Pictures and a DVD release by The Weinstein Company via Dimension Extreme DVDs on 23 September 2008. As her minions wreak havoc on the city above, Lachrymarum hides below ground in the catacombs of her Palazzo, regaining her strength. At the priest's home, Sarah meets Marta, a fellow white witch and friend of Sarah's deceased mother.In his earlier films Suspiria and Inferno this world is more or less confined to the houses of the witches but in Mother of Tears it extends to the whole city of Rome bringing with it sporadic violence and chaos. There are some brilliantly startling jump scares and a “turned up to eleven” version of Dario Argento’s famous gross-out gore effects and cruel ultra-violence that will make even the toughest horror movie fan wince ( and he really does go for maximum shock value here! They talk to the priest, only for him to be killed by one of his patients before he can give the two a copy of a book that would explain Mater Lachrymarum's backstory. If you believe someone of Dario Argento's proven talent would make a movie so deliberately sucky, feel free to join in.

This film felt like reading one of these books, but mixed with classic Dario Argento movies too 🙂 Yes, it isn’t “high art” and there’s a hint of “so bad that it’s good”, but it is the kind of edgy, cool and over-the-top splatter film that has a distinctive “personality” and is just fun to watch. Other tentative cast members were Chiara Caselli as a psychiatrist, Max von Sydow as a mysterious university professor, and Giordano Petri as a young investigator who takes the case when Fantastichini's character is killed. In this version, it is revealed in the climax that Markos is a fraud and Susie Bannion ( Dakota Johnson) is the real Mater Suspiriorum.

As excessive and ketchup laden as predecessors Suspiria and Inferno, Dario Argento's Mother of Tears completes the trilogy with the same baroque grandeur and soggy 1970s sensibilities. Big Bad: Mater Lachrymarum is the titular Mother of Tears, the one responsible for all of the chaos in Rome, and plans to spread that chaos across the world. The urn is shipped to the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome, where Sarah Mandy (Asia Argento), an American studying art restoration, works. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. At this point, shooting was set to begin in late spring of the same year and was to be released between November 2006 and January 2007.