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The Protagonists (1999)

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Country: IT
Technical: col 92m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Fabrizia Sacchi, Andrew Tiernan

Synopsis:

An Anglo-Italian film crew comes to London to reconstruct the casual murder of a man in his car by a pair of middle class students.

Review:

Part faux-documentary, part experimental film (colour plates, degraded film stock, kaleidoscopic editing), the director's first feature interrogates the motives behind a real-life motiveless murder with gratingly unreal docu-style narration from Swinton. By turns off the wall, boring or simply unpleasant to watch, it must be counted a failure.

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Country: IT
Technical: col 92m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Fabrizia Sacchi, Andrew Tiernan

Synopsis:

An Anglo-Italian film crew comes to London to reconstruct the casual murder of a man in his car by a pair of middle class students.

Review:

Part faux-documentary, part experimental film (colour plates, degraded film stock, kaleidoscopic editing), the director's first feature interrogates the motives behind a real-life motiveless murder with gratingly unreal docu-style narration from Swinton. By turns off the wall, boring or simply unpleasant to watch, it must be counted a failure.


Country: IT
Technical: col 92m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Fabrizia Sacchi, Andrew Tiernan

Synopsis:

An Anglo-Italian film crew comes to London to reconstruct the casual murder of a man in his car by a pair of middle class students.

Review:

Part faux-documentary, part experimental film (colour plates, degraded film stock, kaleidoscopic editing), the director's first feature interrogates the motives behind a real-life motiveless murder with gratingly unreal docu-style narration from Swinton. By turns off the wall, boring or simply unpleasant to watch, it must be counted a failure.

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