Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

acidburn-10 The movie starts out with the murder of a young girl, which straight away I found rather unsettling and then fast forward a few years later and we meet George Lazenby who lives in Venice and also has a young daughter and what becomes even more unsettling his daughter becomes the next victim, which becomes heartbreaking as firstly we get to know the little girl and sees her bonding with her father and then the rest of the movie focus's on the father trying to solve the mystery as the police are absolutely clueless.Okay the storyline isn't to everyone's taste, and if you keep watching as the movie goes on it is rather good, and of course we get array of quirky characters and suspects in the usual giallo style and watch as the numbers dwindle down and this movie does a good job of keeping you guessing all the way through to the end, with twists and turns at almost every corner.The Venice setting is a nice touch and rather beautiful and yet at the same time rather sinister and the wonderfully staged murder set pieces. Plus the performances are decent as well, George Lazenby gives a decent performance and a character to root for and Anita Strindberg as his wife was also strong and Nicoletta Elmi is a real highlight as the doomed daughter.All in all a decent movie but does have a few small flaws like the countless red herrings, but with it's moody atomoshere, Who Saw Her Die is still a decent addition to the giallo genre.

morrison-dylan-fan Since discovering the Giallo sub-genre in 2010,I have always kept two titles:Lucio Fulci's Don't Torture a Duckling and Aldo Lado's Who Saw Die?,on the side so that I could watch them at the "right moment",due to them possibly being the grimmest gialli ever made,and also the only two to deal with the subject of a child murderer.With Halloween being about to arrive,and also feeling that the "right time" had arrived for one of the films,I decided to take at the Aldo Lado Giallo,that would show who can kill a child?The plot:Megeve-France:1968.Playing games on a snow covered mountain,Nicole and her mum decide to play a game of hide and seek.Running to the tallest tree that she can find,Nicole is grabbed by a mysterious stranger ,wearing a black veil.Murdering the young girl,the murderer straight away buries Nicole's body under a mountain of snow,and instantly runs away from the scene.Venice-Italy 1972.Isolating himself in Venice after splitting up with his wife Elizabeth,Franco Serpieri is happy to hear that Elizabeth is at last allowing their young daughter Roberta to go and pay a visit to Franco in Venice.Meeting his daughter at the airport,Franco makes sure to make up for all of the lost time that they have,by taking Roberta around all of the amazing sights in Venice,and doing his very best to buy her whatever she wants.Walking back to his flat,Roberta asks her dad if she can go and join in on a series of games that are being played by the local children in the centre of town.Agreeing to Roberta's request,Franco soon bumps into his lover/mistress ,who he decides to spend some time with,as his daughter has fun playing games with all of the local kids.Returning to his flat later in the day,Franco gets the unwelcoming sight of their being no sign at all of his daughter.Cluching to every piece of hope inside him,as he searches round the whole of Venice for his missing daughter,Franco's hope is agonisingly destroyed,when the murdered body of his daughter Roberta is found in a river.Struggleing to deal with the grief and anger that he has towards himself over the events that led to his daughter being taken out of his life,Franco begins to decide,that he can not let the person who murdered his daughter fade away into the misty rivers of Venice.View on the film: With writer/director Aldo Lado and fellow writers Francesco Barilli,Massimo D'Avak and Ruediger Von Spiess wisely using the first 30 minutes to build a charming relationship between Franco and his daughter Roberta, (well played by future Deep Red and Bay of Blood star Nicoletta Elmi) the writers display a tremendous amount of skill,by making Franco's grief and search for the murderer of Roberta one that is grim and emotional,but kept away from easily falling into a dark,nihilistic pit.Smartly getting the audience into Feanco's mindset,director Aldo Lado films all of the scene's between Franco and Roberta from Roberta's height,so that the audience get caught up in Roberta's wonder and excitement as she explores the beautifully misty city of Venice for the first time with her dad.Contrasting the sense of innocence in the first half,Lado also brilliantly uses a scene twice that has two extremely different interpretations,as the scene with Franco and his lover turns from being a way to show plenty of "skin",into a scene which Lado shows replying in Franco's head that hits him straight in the stomach,as he looks back at every action that took place in the bedroom,as a moment that he could have saved his daughter from murder,instead of bitterly giving in to his temptation.Using the Giallo parts of the story to make the viewer will Franco on in his hunt for the killer,Lado display a great stylish eye for the murder scenes,that also include an unexpected espionage section,with the black veil wearing killer being something that gives the movie a slight Gothic Horror atmosphere,and Franco's continually desperate hunt for the murderer being surrounded by a hauntingly isolated,misty Venice.Despite now being a bit Mr Grumpy over not being paid to do his own dubbing for the movie, (which has led to him claiming to have never watched the film) George Lazenby, (who also lost 35 pounds in weight for the role) gives a strong,captivating performance as Franco Serpieri,who along with keeping the viewer on the edge of their seats as he tries to get closer to pulling the black veil off the killer's face,also handles the grief stricken moments for Franco with a realistic frigidness and sorrow,as Franco does his best to gather up the last bit of straighten he has left,so that he can find out who saw her die?.

Vomitron_G Gripping giallo with slightly more disturbing themes than we're used to. Mainly because little girls are being killed here, as well as there seem to be decadent sex-sessions going on amongst a group of selected adults. Apart from the opening scene, this movie takes place in Venice, but doesn't exactly extol this romantic city. Director Aldo Lado prefers to portray a city in decay, showing us several rundown buildings where some of the chase scenes take place and a sleazy cinema-theatre as well as drawing out some perverted characters. The sometimes sloppy editing and grainy cinematography help in giving this movie a raw feeling. Ennio Morricone's score is pretty haunting. The main theme has a children's choir singing creepy chantings. Though that theme is over-used more than a bit too much, it never misses its effect. There was just one disappointment, though: this was the third time in a giallo-row that I guessed, very early on in the movie, who the killer was... Oh well, it's still a decent and disturbing giallo. Certainly worth it if you're a fan of the genre.

ferbs54 For those of you wondering whether George Lazenby ever made another picture, after incarnating the most under-appreciated Bond ever in 1969's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"...well, here he is, three years later, in the Italian giallo "Who Saw Her Die?" In this one, he plays a sculptor named Franco who is living in Venice. When his cute little red-haired daughter is murdered and found floating in a canal, Franco naturally embarks on a quest to find the demented child killer. Lazenby, it must be said here, is almost unrecognizable from three years before. He sports a sleazy handlebar moustache in this film and looks decidedly thinner, almost gaunt, as if he'd been afflicted with a wasting disease in the interim. And the film itself? Well, it's something of a mixed bag. Yes, it does feature stylish direction by Aldo Lado, as well as a pretty freaky score by master composer Ennio Morricone, consisting largely of echoey chanting. We are also given plentiful scenery of Venice, which looks both beautiful and seedy here, an intriguing story to set our mental teeth into, AND Adolfo Celi, always a welcome presence (and another Bond alumnus, from "Thunderball"), here playing a mysterious art dealer. On the down side, I must confess that I was at a loss to understand what the hell was going on throughout most of the picture; what explanations do come toward the end are either half heard from distant rooms or grunted out during fisticuffs. Dubbing doesn't help matters (subtitles would have been a nice option), and the film is never particularly scary or suspenseful. I'll probably need to sit through this one again to get a better handle. Still, "Who Saw Her Die?" remains an interesting, nice-to-look-at giallo, nicely captured here in widescreen on yet another fine DVD from Anchor Bay.