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Stiletto

Stiletto

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 30, 1981

Runtime

0h 48m

Genres

Drama, Crime

Original Title

Stiletto

Production Companies

Alibaba Production

Director

Melvie Arslanian

Description

A woman, Nadja, searches for her sister's murderer. This search goes through differing moments of reality, or unreality, that overlap within facets of a broken-up time sense. In this emulation of film noir, the investigative structure does not create suspense; the dialectic murderer/victim does not exist. The crime is fabricated bit by bit, like the staging of a spectacle, and it is in the traditional tools of seduction (the spiked heels) that the weapons will be hidden. Ultimately, the crime Nadja achieves makes her neither a triumphant heroine nor a victim.