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Othon (1971)

ALL 01/13/1971 (fr) Drama 88 Min
  • Release
    01/13/1971
  • Production
    Janus Film und Fernsehen
  • Rotten tomato
    55%
  • Original title
    Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer, ou Peut-être qu'un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  2. Story

  4. Klaus Hellwig

    Producer



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Othon (1971) 88 Min

ALL 01/13/1971 (fr)
Drama
  • Release 01/13/1971
  • Production
    Janus Film und Fernsehen
  • Original title Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer, ou Peut-être qu'un jour Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

    Editor

  4. Klaus Hellwig

    Producer



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