I've read two translations for this movie's title, The Man In the Cat's Eye and The Cat with a Man's Face. Either one is great. It's a 2009 short that has its bloody heart filled with all that is giallo along with a stated influence from David Lynch's Lost Highway.
Directed and written by Marc Dray (who is also from France, which so much modern gialli like Blackaria and Knife+Heart have come from), I Gatto dal Viso D'uomo starts with a man named Octavien (Jean-Philippe Lafargue) stopping to pick up a female hitchhiker and from there on, everything is hard to define between what is real and what is inside his mind. There's also a murderer by the name of Il Gatto (François Remigi) who is on the loose, breaking into the homes of lonely women and killing them.
Of course, you'll spot how much Argento is all over this movie, as several of the murders take directly from The Bird With the Crystal Plumage and Deep Red. What I liked in this is that the film is more about the mind of the killer and less a police procedural. Also, Dray understands the language and form of the giallo and doesn't feel like he's either making a slavish remake of the past or an art project like Amer that goes nowhere.
Directed and written by Marc Dray (who is also from France, which so much modern gialli like Blackaria and Knife+Heart have come from), I Gatto dal Viso D'uomo starts with a man named Octavien (Jean-Philippe Lafargue) stopping to pick up a female hitchhiker and from there on, everything is hard to define between what is real and what is inside his mind. There's also a murderer by the name of Il Gatto (François Remigi) who is on the loose, breaking into the homes of lonely women and killing them.
Of course, you'll spot how much Argento is all over this movie, as several of the murders take directly from The Bird With the Crystal Plumage and Deep Red. What I liked in this is that the film is more about the mind of the killer and less a police procedural. Also, Dray understands the language and form of the giallo and doesn't feel like he's either making a slavish remake of the past or an art project like Amer that goes nowhere.
