A TV Dante - Inferno: Based on the First Cantos of "Inferno" by Dante

Around the time of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover", Peter Greenaway collaborated with artist Tom Phillips to turn the first eight cantos of Dante’s "Inferno" into a video performance, complete with onscreen footnotes from Phillips, David Attenborough and others. Bob...

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Weitere Verfasser: Greenaway, Peter (RegisseurIn), Phillips, Tom (RegisseurIn), Gielgud, John (SchauspielerIn), Peck, Bob (SchauspielerIn), Whalley, Joanne (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software
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Veröffentlicht: [U.K.] Digital Classics 2011
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Zusammenfassung:Around the time of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover", Peter Greenaway collaborated with artist Tom Phillips to turn the first eight cantos of Dante’s "Inferno" into a video performance, complete with onscreen footnotes from Phillips, David Attenborough and others. Bob Peck and John Gielgud anchor the piece in its textual origins, reciting Dante’s lines to camera. Meanwhile all hell breaks out around them, as Greenaway and Phillips stretch the medium to its limits (and it had plenty back in 1989): frames proliferate within frames, containing archive footage (featuring everything from leopards to Mussolini) that illuminates or resonates with the spoken text. The region’s inhabitants are represented by several platoons of naked extras who writhe and suffer gamely in fleshy tableaux - this is Greenaway, after all. It’s all tremendously atmospheric, and in its artful layering of information it anticipates the online environment that we now take for granted. But best of all, we get to watch stately, no-frills performances by Gielgud and Peck - now, alas, both shades themselves. [www.moviemail.com]
Beschreibung:[DVD] (88 Min.) dolby digital 2.0

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