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Othon

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.

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Release : 1971
Rating : 6.5
Studio : Janus Film und Fernsehen, 
Crew : Director of Photography,  Director of Photography, 
Cast : Adriano Aprà Olimpia Carlisi Jean-Marie Straub Jean-Claude Biette Eduardo de Gregorio
Genre : Drama

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Stometer
2018/08/30

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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FeistyUpper
2018/08/30

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Intcatinfo
2018/08/30

A Masterpiece!

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Hattie
2018/08/30

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

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