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Once upon a time films were made with shameful budgets and heaps of imagination, and this is one of them. Though given a whopping $3M by the ego-maniac Dino de Laurentis (King Kong the gross remake) the genius Mario Bava brought this 60s beauty in at $400K. Even converted into today’s hard currency it would be hard to conceive of a original day director either struggling out of bed for such a miniscule sum, or ever bringing a film in under budget. Instead Bava treats the inspect and the mind to a shapely psychedelic modernist fantasy.
There seems to be a popular belief that many directors of the past were somehow more boring than the giant intellects of the cinema of today and that they had no comprehension of what they were doing. Bava knew exactly what he was making with this movie version of a celebrated European laughable and that was to acquire a film that was fun.
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Pitted against a world of aged stilted politics, bumbling police and chalk-stripe-suited Mafia villains Diabolik, a icy ultra-thief with an underground lair to be envied by Dr No and every other sinister genius, outwits his pursuers time and time again with a manic laugh, a delightful girl-friend and his ‘n’ hers Jaguar E-Types.
This film is a two-hour trip; the fetch is helpful and the images have a bright organic feel unachievable with today’s over-processed CGI FX. If you worship the visuals of Barbarella you’ll adore this. Bava, though, has a more cynical idea of the world and in one scene presents us with a nightclub where villains ply the “innocent” hippies with drugs making them dance in hysterically humorous ways that is objective as an incisive critique of that era as it would be of some rave scenes today. Some things unprejudiced don’t change.
Sure if you want to adopt the dauntless stance of the post-modernist and purchase the sophisticated residence of The One Who Laughs At Terrible Musty Films then you’ll pick up some kind of kick out of this. But you won’t regain anything like the kick you will by unbiased relaxing into the brilliantly-lit indignant world of Mario Bava where nothing is quite what it appears and baddies come by - almost.
If you like Burt Bacharach, Ennio Morricone, if you loved Barbarella, Harry Palmer, etc… You can’t ignore “Difficulty : Diabolik”. I’ve been looking for this movie in Europe for 18 months, and finally ordered it compose the USA. And this is the most stylish film I’ve ever seen. Terrible scenario (but this is definitely toothsome) with an incredible atmosphere. E-Type Jaguars, secret underground bases, mind-blowing music : this is how the world should be.