The Stendhal Syndrome 4K 1996 Ultra HD 2160p

The Stendhal Syndrome is a specific psychological condition in which a person perceives paintings very acutely, as if being transported into the reality depicted on the canvas. The boundary between reality and fantasy is blurred for such people.

The main character, Anna, falls victim to a maniac, and this event causes irreparable damage to her psyche. Even after she deals with the killer, she feels like he's still alive and haunting her. To prove her theory, more and more dead bodies start showing up...

User Review

I completely disagree with my colleagues who claim that the title does not reflect the essence of the film. It's just that many people perceive Stendhal syndrome — an extremely deep immersion in a work of art with a temporary loss of one's own personality — too academically. They say that a sick person cannot walk past a painting without stopping and staring at it, and then fainting. This understanding is also present in the film. But at the same time, the stated idea is much broader: why can't you “enter” and live the life of another person in exactly the same way — thinking like them, acting like them. But, of course, you'd be very unlucky if the latter turned out to be a serial killer...
I admit, this is my first encounter with the work of Dario Argento and his daughter. But I can share my first impressions of this encounter. First of all, Argento is a master of suspense! The film is in no way inferior to Hitchcock's films and the trilogy (with a claim to be a tetralogy) about Hannibal Lecter. Of course, Dario cannot yet do without pure fear-mongering — there will be rivers of blood, a finger stuck in an eye, and a blade slowly sliding down the cheekbone of the main character. Brrr, just thinking about it. At the same time, the picture sometimes turns into a surrealistic painting—it's no wonder that Argento is considered one of the masters of the horror genre. From the very beginning, it seemed to me that this was nonsense, a dream of Anna, the main character. All these holes through the cheeks, into which the killer's eye looks, pills sliding down the esophagus, paint sliding down the picture and opening the door to Anna's past. However, the real “surreal” begins later, when Anna begins to get into the “skin” of the maniac.

Small details that gradually come together in one big finale—Anna happily cuts her arms and looks at the blood with admiration, paints gloomy pictures, smears her body with black paint and falls asleep, tries to have fun with her friend in a masculine way.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (91.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)

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