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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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The Superdeep
Sayen: The Huntress
MaXXXine
Dutch
12
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Hatchet III
Shamshera
Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
Sixty Minutes
Dark Cloud
Gogol. A Terrible Vengeance
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Nullification: The Rightful Remedy
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The Great Battle
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Seance
Disenchanted
Innocence
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