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Director: Franco Brocani
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From Time Out Film Guide
Brocani conjures together all your favourite European cultural and historical myth figures in order to attack the centuries of 'sublimation' that have produced our cities and their inhabitants. The gang's all here: Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa. The range is extraordinary, from stand-up Jewish comedy to a kind of flea-market expressionism. Brocani's approach is contemplative rather than agitational, which confounds the impatient; Gavin Bryars' lovely Terry Riley-esque score matches the ambience exactly.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Franco Brocani
Producer: Gianni Barcelloni
Cast: Viva Auder, Tina Aumont, Carmelo Bene, Pierre Clémenti, Paul Jabara, Paolo Graziosa, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Louis Waldon full cast
Duration: 120 mins
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