An unrestrained phantasmagoria from Italy’s Carmelo Bene, one of the world’s most defiantly idiosyncratic filmmakers. Read More »
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Don Giovanni (1970) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Vittorio Bodini
In many respects a stylistic prototype for his masterpiece Salome, the film marks a move aware from real locations towards the baroque artifice of his later works. Read More »
Salomè (1972) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Alfiero Vincenti
Salomè (Donyale Luna), the whorish daughter of Herod (Carmelo Bene), is lusted after by her depraved stepfather, King Tetrac. Read More »
One Hamlet Less (1973) Carmelo Bene, Luciana Cante, Sergio Di Giulio, Drama
Bene’s version of Hamlet celebrates the power and beauty of Shakespeare’s theatricality, while attempting to strip the piece of the morbid piety that has come to cling to it over the centuries. Read More »
Our Lady of the Turks (1968) Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Salvatore Siniscalchi, Drama
Avant Garde piece from Carmelo Bene. A series of vignettes drive a whirl of sounds, images and poetry – is it horror, is it comedy, make your own mind up. Read More »