Opera

A young soprano takes over Lady Macbeth at short notice and acquires a stalker who binds her and tapes needles beneath her eyelids so she cannot look away while he kills people in front of her.

That device is the whole thesis: Argento has spent a career being told his films punish women for being looked at, and here he makes the woman unable to stop watching and the audience share her position exactly.

The camera work is extraordinary. There are point-of-view shots from a raven flying over an opera house audience, achieved with a rig on a wire, and a bullet passing through a peephole and a head in one shot.

The production was miserable. Argento's relationship with Daria Nicolodi ended during it and his father died.

The final sequence in a Swiss meadow is either a disaster or a masterstroke.