Footprints on the Moon
This week we’re showing Luigi Bazzoni’s *Le Orme (1975), *also known as *Footprints *or *Footprints on the Moon, *on Wednesday, April 16 at 8pm.
Here is the link to RSVP. Doors will be at 7:50 and we’re starting the film at 8:10!
Alice is a professional translator in Rome struggling with inexplicable memory loss. She travels to a small town on the coast where people recognize her by a different name despite, as far as she knows, never having been there before. All the while Alice suffers from a recurring vivid nightmare about an astronaut being abandoned on the moon.
A remarkably photographed thriller with an organ-accented soundtrack, it digs deep into The Uncanny via doppelgangers, memory loss, reflections, dreams, and translation, *Footprints *is a gorgeous and eerie slow burn, an overlooked cousin of Dario Argento’s masterpieces sans the gloved hands and knives. It stars queen of the giallo Florinda Bolkan with an appearance by Klaus Kinski, sinister as a nightmare astronaut could ever be. Nicoletta Elmi also appears in the film, reprising her signature role for Italian cinema as the creepy child. She has perhaps one of the most accomplished, bizarre filmographies for a child I’ve ever seen, with roles in Argento’s *Deep Red, *Mario Bava’s *Bay of Blood and Baron Blood, Death in Venice, *Paul Morrissey’s *Flesh for Frankenstein, *and of course *Footprints, *all by the time she was just 11 years olds. She took one of her final roles, a rare appearance as an adult for her, in Lamberto Bava’s Demons before retiring from acting for good to become a speech therapist.
From below the moon, Stefan, Charlie, and Stark