The Cannibals (Cavani, 1970): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.25pm
This is the UK premiere of the 4K restoration of the film.
BFI introduction:
The corpses of the opponents of a tyrannical regime fill the streets
of Milan – left unburied by the repressive state as a warning to the
population. Amid indifference, a modern-day Antigone finds help from an
enigmatic stranger to bury her brother. Filmed in the revolutionary
climate of post-’68 Milan by a filmmaker who made a profound mark on the
history of cinema, this tale of resistance against totalitarianism
revisits Greek dramatist Sophocles, resulting in a chillingly relevant
and provocative work.
Time Out review:
Made directly after Galileo, whose strengths director Liliana Cavani enlarges and
develops, this also postulates a primacy of human and emotional response
over the nihilism of The Night Porter (made four years later). In this modern day reworking of Antigone,
Cavani's striking visual sense illuminates her subject sufficiently to
overcome doubts about some of the '60s conceits. Where she manages to
evoke her Fascist state as exceptionally normal, the film works
exceptionally well.
Verna Glaesner
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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