The Death of Empedocles (1987)
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
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It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
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Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
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A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
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