The Big Shave + All the Colors of the Dark + They Dance with Their Heads
For the magazine's twentieth anniversary this year, a series of screenings has been planned on the double bill principle, with the main focus on a selection of rarely-seen films. Other movies in the program are also important milestones in the development of the critics' dialogue within one of Quebec's most dynamic film magazines.
While shaving, a man cuts himself and he bleeds... he bleeds!
Jane is a young Londoner consumed by terrible nightmares. Traumatized by a recent miscarriage and the murder of her mother, which she witnessed at the age of 5, she seeks help from a psychiatrist and her new neighbor Mary. But her state of confusion only worsens to the point of mistaking dreams for reality...
The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.
Sergio Martino
Sergio Martino is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer, primarily known for his contribution to the giallo genre, a film genre that often contains thriller, horror, and sexploitation elements. He is the brother of producer Luciano Martino and the grandson of director Gennaro Righelli. He began his career in the 1960s as a screenwriter and assistant director, and then made his directorial debut in 1969 with the erotic documentary Wages of Sin (1969). In 1970, he worked on his first giallo, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971), starring Edwige Fenech. In his gialli, he claims to draw inspiration from Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques (1954). This first film was followed by four others, two with Fenech, including All the Colors of the Dark (1972). He then explored different avenues in the 1970s and 1980s, including westerns, action films, and comedies. In the 1990s, he sporadically worked in cinema before turning primarily to television.
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