Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967
heavily heated
switch from modern to archaic clearly shows continuance of themes today
use of clear symbols; the headress, the sword
in a way, a rather faithful recounting, with not much added on to the Freudian story
use of landscape is big, power of nature
relates to Passolini's use of the master shot, then quickly the close ups in
creates (usually moving) tableaus, Brueghel influence
then a real lot of work on the almost direct to camera close up
means that the editing is fast, on everything except the close up
clear identification with the lead throughout
even some non continuity editing reinforces it
use of fascinating (1970's, blatantly) extras, saturation focusses on appetites
interesting questions of fate; when we know the end, what does that mean
not exactly subtle (subtedly not always good, but nothing beyond semantic description less so)
still, good
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