The Protagonists (1999)
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.
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.