Saturday, February 11, 2012

Eyes of Laura Mars - 1978 ***



I was drawn to the bizarre idea of this movie, and decided I had to see it. Laura Mars is a famous photographer who unwittingly begins to take pictures of her models in poses of murders that are about to happen. She also has visions where she sees the murders take places through the eyes of the killer. This is naturally terrifying to her, but she begins to feel she is making more sense of it when she meets a very young Tommy Lee Jones who is a detective specialising in the cases. Very soon they make a romantic connection, and she feels that she can trust him, or can she?

I liked the idea, and found the film a sort of foreign version of an American horror movie, a bit like the giallo genre. It's tense and unnerving, but that's what makes it so good, and you get to see the fantastically wacky clothes that people wore in the 1970s!

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