Review of Dark Bar

Dark Bar (1989)
8/10
So noir and blue!
24 September 2009
Elizabeth (Barbara Cupisti) has an appointment in the Dark Bar – drugs, blackmail and always on the run for money. This time she thinks she's made it. But, alas, the Dark Bar is the last place where she's seen alive. Anna, Elizabeth's sister, with the help of Marco (a friend of Elizabeth) goes looking for her missing sister. But Elizabeth's corpse is discovered. She was mixed in something bigger than herself – blackmail can be dangerous! Elizabeth kept hidden informations concerning important people and the killers assume that Anna (Marina Suma) probably knows something. Now Anna is the target. Anna and Marco (Richard Hatch) will try to unveil the mystery, but the killers are after them.

"Dark Bar" is very stylish – good cameras and an intelligent and fast editing. The acting feels natural and an appropriate soundtrack helps to stress the bluesy and sensual mood of "Dark Bar". In some moments of the film we hear the beautiful song "Dark Haven", sung by Karen Jones.

Most of the scenes of "Dark Bar" take place during the night, or some hours before the dark. Train stations, night clubs, interiors and fields streamed with woods near the river.

Those that want a film with a straightforward story should keep away from "Dark Bar". "Dark Bar" is a film about mood where the story slowly unfolds itself, and not everything from A to Z is explained. We follow Anna and Marco in their journey through a dark world. Shadows, violence, sensuality, loneliness and hope...

Marina Suma, a very sensual woman, is Anna in dangerland.
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