Kaos (Taviani, 1984): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 4.30pm
This classic, being shown from a 4K digital restoration, is part of the Taviani Brothers season, and also screens on February 10th. Full details here.
Time Out review:
A bandit plays bowls with the head of an old woman's husband, a peasant
turns werewolf, a hunchback gets trapped in an outsized olive jar, a
tyrant denies tenants the right to bury their dead, and Pirandello
shares his sorrows with his mother's ghosts. The common link between the
stories, adapted from Pirandello, is the vast, empty Sicilian landscape
harbouring a richness of dramatic tales at once emotional and
elemental. This is a film of fierce sunlight, bleached rocks, dark
interiors, silent stares, and dialogue as rough and sparse as the land.
In the years since the Tavianis' Padre Padrone, naturalism has
given ground to a more grotesque vision of the past, allowing black
comedy to creep into the always subtle socio-historical subject matter.
Exhilarating.
Martin Auty
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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