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Parano

  • 1981
  • 1h 20m
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3.8/10
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Jean-Pierre Léaud in Parano (1981)
DramaHorror

Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life.Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life.Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life.

  • Director
    • Bernard Dubois
  • Writer
    • Bernard Dubois
  • Stars
    • Jean-Pierre Léaud
    • Agathe Vannier
    • Lou Castel
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.8/10
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    • Director
      • Bernard Dubois
    • Writer
      • Bernard Dubois
    • Stars
      • Jean-Pierre Léaud
      • Agathe Vannier
      • Lou Castel
    • 2User reviews
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    Jean-Pierre Léaud
    Jean-Pierre Léaud
    • Ignazio
    Agathe Vannier
    • Maria
    Lou Castel
    Lou Castel
    • Michel
    Stefania Casini
    Stefania Casini
    Joe Dallesandro
    Joe Dallesandro
    • Le psychiatre
    Angelica Ippolito
    Angelica Ippolito
    Sarah Manuelli
    • La petite fille
    Stéphane Vilar
    • Le mari
    Jane Pugh
    • La fille du bar
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      • Bernard Dubois
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    4HumanoidOfFlesh

    Pretty uninteresting.

    Having murdered her husband and daughter Carol invents a new identity to start a new life.Unfortunately her tendency to express their unhappiness or disapproval by murdering her victims could jeopardize her romance with mathematician and philosopher Ignacio from Spain."Parano" mixes a bit of nasty gore including child murder with philosophical mumbo-jumbo.It features a cameo of Joe Dallesandro.The gore includes pretty splashy decapitation of an aspiring writer and intellectual and the double murder at the beginning of the film.There are endless tirades about mathematics and philosophy.To put it simply "Parano" is a pretentious and boring trash with not enough gore and nudity.But beware:"The patient is a woman aged 27,detained seven months ago.No occupation,she is suffering from chronic psychosis with delusions,hallucinations and paranoid symptoms".4 out of 10.
    galexandre

    Hardly watchable gory-philosophical crap

    To my knowledge, this film has never been released commercially in France, and no wonder why ! Shot in 16 mm, hardly audible, the story unfurls around a terrible bad actress pretending that she is a rebel to society by dismembering her family and people around her. Impossible to believe the poor thesp one minute, and the short gory scenes (a severed head on the freeway, a dismembered body in a cupboard, a dog with his belly ripped plus some gunshots) are barely OK. The director probably wanted to make a genre movie (horror for instance) while giving to it some social twist (the woman claims that for her, all social corporations like family, prison, mental asylum - where she ends up - are alike and lethal for individuality). For the fans, Joe Dallesandro has a short scene as the psychiatrist who takes care of Maria, lasting five minutes. Don't bother looking for the tape, even if I know it's been released, long ago in France, for rent. As for myself, I saw it at the French Cinematheque, the only place in the world where they would dare showing such a masterpiece !

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    • Release date
      • March 18, 1981 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Nervi a pezzi
    • Filming locations
      • Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production company
      • Les Films du Palatino
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      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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