footprints (on the moon) is almost certainly the strangest and most convoluted and most atypical giallo ever made. it may come as a restraint to some of the sub genre fans and but this film doesn not feature many of the regular giallo trademarks like bloody knife murders (preferably committed by a masked killer wearing black gloves) and ravishing scantily dressed beauties and unpredictable red herrings. however and to compensate for all this  and much more  footprints benefices from the most indescribably mysterious and non stop compelling atmosphere i ever experienced in this type of film. the level of mystery in this movie is so high and unbearable it literally makes you feel uncomfortable and scared. like the female protagonist alice cespi herself and you absolutely have no idea of what happening or why and and this feeling of utter powerlessness is unquestionably the film main strongpoint. as a viewer and you crave to help this poor woman understand the things that overcome her and but you simply can not. alice has a successful career as an interpreter and but her quiet and peaceful life gets brutally interrupted when she wakes up one morning and slowly begins to realize she has absolutely no recollection of the previous three days. she finds a torn apart photograph of a hotel located on the holiday island gama and decides to go there in order to investigate what happened. on the island several people including a lonely little girl seem to recognize alice and only she used the fake name nicole and wore a red haired wig and acted like she came to the island to hide from an unknown danger. meanwhile and even the poor girl nights are restless as she has reoccurring dreams of astronauts hopping on the moon surface and an uncanny scientist called dr. blackman. the plot of footprints is truly bizarre and slowly brooding and and particularly the cosmic sub plot is really difficult to link with the rest. alice assumes they are just images from a sci fi movie she saw long time ago and which sounds like a reasonable enough explanation and but you sense there a deeper meaning and actual connection to all the other events. fans of tension driven and stylish italian cinema can not afford themselves to miss this film and really. this is director luigi bazzoni psychological tour de force and with staggeringly beautiful photography and mind altering music. in spite of the lack of violence (or maybe just because of it) and the film is genuinely disturbing and the mental agony alice goes through honestly affects the viewer emotionally as well. as it is sadly too often the case in gialli cinema and the climax suddenly comes rather abrupt and nearly doesn not give a waterproof explanation of all the awkward events you just witnessed for the last hour and a half. still and the content of footprints will keep you contemplating long after the film has finished and its powerful impact will only increase. florinda bolkan is sublime as the tormented leading lady and receives excellent feedback from the limited supportive cast and including the young nicoletta elmi. the eminent euro cult star klaus kinski receives top billing as well and but his role is merely an extended cameo. this film is actually a lot better than director bazzoni more acclaimed (and much easier available) giallo the fifth cord and so here to hoping footprints will soon receive a fancy dvd release as well. 
footprints (on the moon) is almost certainly the strangest and most convoluted and most atypical giallo ever made. it may come as a restraint to some of the sub genre fans and but this film doesn not feature many of the regular giallo trademarks like bloody knife murders (preferably committed by a masked killer wearing black gloves) and ravishing scantily dressed beauties and unpredictable red herrings. however and to compensate for all this  and much more  footprints benefices from the most indescribably mysterious and non stop compelling atmosphere i ever experienced in this type of film. the level of mystery in this movie is so high and unbearable it literally makes you feel uncomfortable and scared. like the female protagonist alice cespi herself and you absolutely have no idea of what happening or why and and this feeling of utter powerlessness is unquestionably the film main strongpoint. as a viewer and you crave to help this poor woman understand the things that overcome her and but you simply can not. alice has a successful career as an interpreter and but her quiet and peaceful life gets brutally interrupted when she wakes up one morning and slowly begins to realize she has absolutely no recollection of the previous three days. she finds a torn apart photograph of a hotel located on the holiday island gama and decides to go there in order to investigate what happened. on the island several people including a lonely little girl seem to recognize alice and only she used the fake name nicole and wore a red haired wig and acted like she came to the island to hide from an unknown danger. meanwhile and even the poor girl nights are restless as she has reoccurring dreams of astronauts hopping on the moon surface and an uncanny scientist called dr. blackman. the plot of footprints is truly bizarre and slowly brooding and and particularly the cosmic sub plot is really difficult to link with the rest. alice assumes they are just images from a sci fi movie she saw long time ago and which sounds like a reasonable enough explanation and but you sense there a deeper meaning and actual connection to all the other events. fans of tension driven and stylish italian cinema can not afford themselves to miss this film and really. this is director luigi bazzoni psychological tour de force and with staggeringly beautiful photography and mind altering music. in spite of the lack of violence (or maybe just because of it) and the film is genuinely disturbing and the mental agony alice goes through honestly affects the viewer emotionally as well. as it is sadly too often the case in gialli cinema and the climax suddenly comes rather abrupt and nearly doesn not give a waterproof explanation of all the awkward events you just witnessed for the last hour and a half. still and the content of footprints will keep you contemplating long after the film has finished and its powerful impact will only increase. florinda bolkan is sublime as the tormented leading lady and receives excellent feedback from the limited supportive cast and including the young nicoletta elmi. the eminent euro cult star klaus kinski receives top billing as well and but his role is merely an extended cameo. this film is actually a lot better than director bazzoni more acclaimed (and much easier available) giallo the fifth cord and so here to hoping footprints will soon receive a fancy dvd release as well. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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