A Walk With Love and Death

John Huston - 1969
Huston directs in his usual rather non-consequential way, not really creating much of a sense of a world, sticking to establishing, then SRS. The dialogue is getting better, and their is now a nice simplicity to the direction, one doesn't feel it is intrusive. The film stock here uses heavily saturated colour, for some reason.
We have here very much a flower-power story, credit for tackling that society in this way, though not much of a sense of time and place. Angelica Huston's face and acting really work rather well for a kind of Byzantium icon-painting; but visually, she is photographed in no distinctive way whatsoever.
Huston seems rather stuck on the cliches of courtly love, trying to circumvent but ultimately returning to a tragic romanticism. A worthy subject, with some nice moments, but no real cinematic expression.