Goto, l'île d'amour (1968)
(Goto, Island of Love)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/Eastmancolor 93m
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Guy Saint-Jean, Jean-Pierre Andréani
Synopsis:
On an island living in dread of the sea a soldier of the regime is saved by the Governor from death for stealing a pair of binoculars, and assigned to looking after His Highness's kennels, cleaning the household's boots and killing flies. He exacts a terrible revenge on his antagonists.
Review:
A film far easier to summarize than to analyse. It appears to be obsessed with traps, and the 'front-on' treatment of space which was to be a feature of its creator's work, giving a very limited idea of place, reinforces this. Its surreal content, suggested by the above synopsis, is also present in the use of music (Handel, musical saw) and subliminal cutaways in colour. In its highly formal editing and adoption of techniques of direction more suited to the artist's studio it alienates as much as it amuses; in future films the director, a Polish animator, was to draw increasingly on the theme of eroticism only sketched in this work (the title is misleading, since the antihero's actions are prompted more by mad desire than by love).
(Goto, Island of Love)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/Eastmancolor 93m
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Guy Saint-Jean, Jean-Pierre Andréani
Synopsis:
On an island living in dread of the sea a soldier of the regime is saved by the Governor from death for stealing a pair of binoculars, and assigned to looking after His Highness's kennels, cleaning the household's boots and killing flies. He exacts a terrible revenge on his antagonists.
Review:
A film far easier to summarize than to analyse. It appears to be obsessed with traps, and the 'front-on' treatment of space which was to be a feature of its creator's work, giving a very limited idea of place, reinforces this. Its surreal content, suggested by the above synopsis, is also present in the use of music (Handel, musical saw) and subliminal cutaways in colour. In its highly formal editing and adoption of techniques of direction more suited to the artist's studio it alienates as much as it amuses; in future films the director, a Polish animator, was to draw increasingly on the theme of eroticism only sketched in this work (the title is misleading, since the antihero's actions are prompted more by mad desire than by love).
(Goto, Island of Love)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/Eastmancolor 93m
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Guy Saint-Jean, Jean-Pierre Andréani
Synopsis:
On an island living in dread of the sea a soldier of the regime is saved by the Governor from death for stealing a pair of binoculars, and assigned to looking after His Highness's kennels, cleaning the household's boots and killing flies. He exacts a terrible revenge on his antagonists.
Review:
A film far easier to summarize than to analyse. It appears to be obsessed with traps, and the 'front-on' treatment of space which was to be a feature of its creator's work, giving a very limited idea of place, reinforces this. Its surreal content, suggested by the above synopsis, is also present in the use of music (Handel, musical saw) and subliminal cutaways in colour. In its highly formal editing and adoption of techniques of direction more suited to the artist's studio it alienates as much as it amuses; in future films the director, a Polish animator, was to draw increasingly on the theme of eroticism only sketched in this work (the title is misleading, since the antihero's actions are prompted more by mad desire than by love).