The House with Laughing Windows (1976) aka La casa dalle finestre che ridono (RM4k LCQF 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 1.0 HeVK) Pupi Avati Lino Capolicchio Francesca Marciano Gianni Cavina Eugene Walter Giulio Pizzirani Bob Tonelli Vanna Busoni hq
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- LanguageItalian
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The House with Laughing Windows
A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a mysterious, long-dead artist.
The House with Laughing Windows (1976) aka La casa dalle finestre che ridono, directed by Pupi Avati, Le Chat Qui Fume 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical mono, and subtitles in English and French.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074287/
Video encoded in two-pass 15.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : I've been waiting for this one for a long time, since it had something of a hidden gem reputation among the gialli, and had also only been available in SD until now. This excellent 4k remaster changes all that, though, and I have to say, it doesn't disappoint, a dread-soaked nightmare of a film, a mixture of rural folk horror, murder mystery, and gothic, with a great lead performance by Lino Capolicchio, whose growing unease is plain to see on his expressive face throughout, backed up by Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, and Eugene Walter. Pupi Avati does it again, and this was definitely worth the wait. If you like giallo at all, you need to see this.
In 1950s Italy, Stefano, a young art restorer, is called to a small rural village to work on a fresco in the local church, portraying the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. The artist was Legnani, a local painter who went mad and committed suicide several decades earlier. Stefano takes up residence in the house that was previously owned by the painter and his two sisters, and begins a romance with a young schoolteacher, but gradually learns from the townspeople that Legnani was insane, and had painted various scenes of martyrdom from real life. Specifically, Legnani and his sisters tortured people to death so that he could use them as models, and this possibly includes the very painting Stefano's working on. The villagers discourage him from continuing the restoration work, and when several of them are murdered, he suspects someone is trying to keep him from discovering the whole truth.
This is a nice 4k restoration with good contrast, decent detail, and tight but somewhat prominent grain, although the greenish-yellow tint to the whole film is a bit strange. I see that descriptions of earlier versions of the film also refer to this kind of grading, so I think it must be intentional, but it certainly has an unusual look. The mono track sounds fine, sadly no commentary tracks or anything else.
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 242 kb/s / 1 channel / Original Italian theatrical mono / Italian / *Default
Text #1 : SRT / 31.0 b/s / English
Text #2 : VobSub / 5.6 kb/s / French
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Opening
00:03:25.875 : St. Sebastian
00:11:12.958 : A Tale to Tell
00:19:44.167 : The Painter of Agony
00:27:17.250 : Moving In
00:35:23.208 : Strange Voice
00:43:00.083 : Francesca
00:48:36.750 : Romantic Dinner
00:56:28.750 : Painting Death
01:04:59.417 : Legnani's Sisters
01:13:05.167 : Presumed Not Confirmed
01:19:50.458 : Bone Digging
01:26:14.000 : Grinning Panes
01:29:13.167 : Mind Games
01:36:09.667 : A Familiar Voice
01:40:02.208 : Comes To Life
01:44:18.083 : Vicious Cycle
01:49:38.042 : End Credits
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