Fear. Autobiography

Fear. Autobiography
by Dario Argento

Publisher : Deep Red (February 2018)
Language : French
Number of pages : 360 pages

Devourer of books from an early age, Dario Argento is passionate about dark rooms where his solitary character and his overflowing imagination find fertile ground. His experience as a journalist at Paese Sera, decisive, made him meet Sergio Leone, who was to change his life. But in his head begins to ripen an ambitious desire: to write a different screenplay, nourished by the emotions felt while watching the films of Lang, Hitchcock and Antonioni. This culminated in 1970 with his first feature film, The Bird with Crystal Plumage, a giallo which registered a record taking in Italy, and the name of Dario Argento went around the planet. Black and deep red pearls will follow: The Cat with Nine Tails, Four Gray Velvet Flies, The Shivers of Anguish, Suspiria, Inferno, Ténèbres, Phenomena, Opéra, Le Syndrome de Stendhal… In addition to a portrait of the artist on the work, this autobiography delivers the dreams, considerations and confidences of a man caught between withdrawal into himself and renewed desires for travel and encounters, between passion for living and existential doubts. With the ultimate admission this certainty: "As long as there is someone out there to scare, I can consider myself a happy man." »