Monday 13 June 2011

The Savage Innocents

Nicholas Ray - 1960
We have the outsider community as free-love, as a kind of naive tenderness. Yet we also have the brutality of the treatment of the wives.
Ray's distinctive technique seems to have gone a little awol, apart from some nice framings here and there. The radically unreal colours and sets do though contrbute and seem part of a Ray aesthetic, of a kind of fantasy-land.

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