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Argento’s Ñonhosonno Comes to DVD By


Nathaniel Thompson


l y iere months after its first festival screenings in the United States, Dario Argento’s Non- hosonno (“Sleepless”) made its digital bow on July 10 on Italian DVD courtesy of Medusa Video. (Coincidentally, the company’s influential leader, Carlo Berlasconi, passed away just a few days earlier.) Consumers with PAL compatible players can now find the wait for the title’s domes­ tic release alleviated by a crisp anamorphic 1.77:1 transfer and a welcome array of language options. While many Argentophiles


have disagreed about the merits of the director’s comeback giallo effort, few can argue that it marks a step in the right direction after the poorly received THE PHAN­TOM OF THE OPERA [Il fan­tasma dell’opera, 1998] and sports a handful of sequences which will doubtless become part of the Argento pantheon. Max (FARINELLI’s Stefano Dionisi), Von Sydow heads an eclectic has now grown into a man and cast as Commissioner Ulysses believes that the same killer is Moretti, a retired investigator whose promise to find the mur­ derer of a young boy’s mother comes back to haunt him twelve years later. The boy, Giacomo


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now responsible for a series of gruesome slayings based upon a macabre nursery rhyme, writ­ ten by a dead mystery writer dwarf! Eagle-eyed viewers will


Business as usual, but above average, in Dario Argento’s


NONHOSONNO, now available as a Region 2 DVD from Italy’s Medusa Video.

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