Actress Daria Nicolodi, great Italian horror film muse and mother of Asia Argento, dies

The Florentine actress

died yesterday in Rome at the age of 70.

The interpreter inspired

, shone like never before in

and broke the stereotypes of the role of women in the

.

The

is that

stylized Italian horror film, which lived through its moment of greatest glory in the 1970s, and

occupied a capital place in the genre.

Not only because she was the unforgettable protagonist of the masterly

(1975), one of the best films in the history of cinema, directed by

, who became her partner during the

process

, but because she provided the stories of witchcraft that would be immortalized in the subsequent and no less important

(1977) and

(1980).

Just a year after that heated

,

born

, who would grow up as an iconic actress and champion of the MeToo movement, as well as a director at least interesting, as

(2000)

attests

, in which mother and daughter appeared practically playing each other. themselves.

Judging by

(2014), another semi-autobiographical film directed by Asia Argento, the

between Daria and Dario, who never married, had to be

, as can be expected of an Italian artist couple, who also felt a common attraction to darkness.

But it was fruitful.

In

, Daria did not limit herself to "accompanying" David Hemmings in his investigation of a murder that occurred in the emblematic Piazza CLN, a Turinese location where the Italian filmmaker makes the best of matches, but stands as a

her

: she is the unforgettable Gianna Brezzi, intrepid journalist, host of a small utility and resolutely feminist, who brings to this jewel, with a synthetic soundtrack by the group Goblin, a touch of delicious comedy.

Her

broke with the stereotypes of an eminently misogynistic gender, in which the role of women used to be limited to appearing naked before being murdered by a stranger wearing a raincoat armed with a long knife.

Suspiria

, which was recently the subject of a curious and somewhat excessive

by Luca Guadagnino, was

, from when she attended a dance academy where the teachers also practiced black magic.

And the end result is well known: an overwhelming

that occupies a central place in the history of horror cinema.

Then came

, another story co-written by the couple.

Although she is not credited as a screenwriter, only she had the secret keys to those haunting stories of witchcraft.

Indeed, if the film started in the style of

, like an unhealthy witch tale, then it turned into a dream trip that ends up not revealing its mysteries, leaving lovers of closed films unsatisfied.

In one way or another, as an actress, collaborating on the script or both, Daria Nicolodi

of all of Dario Argento's films between 1975 and 1987, a splendid time for the director.

In addition to those already mentioned, he was in

(1982),

(1984) and

(1987).

The relationship between the two had been definitively broken in 1985, although Nicolodi ended up participating in

(2007), the film that completes the

trilogy

undertaken with

and

.

It was his last film, closing a career in which his starring role also stands out in

(1977), the swan song by Mario Bava, the founding father of

.

In addition to collaborating with other directors of the Argento orbit, such as Lamberto Lava or Luigi Cozzi, he also had great roles with filmmakers further removed from the genre, such as

in

(1975), a comedy in which he rubbed shoulders with Jack Lemmon and Marcello Mastroianni, or Elio Petri, who gave him

in

(1973), the film in which his personal stamp was definitely established: that atypical, but incredibly seductive beauty, who recited his texts with a certain detachment and ironic distance, the very paradigm of the modern, independent and profoundly contemporary actress.

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