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The Antiquities of Rome

The Antiquities of Rome Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 21/11/1989
  • Duration : 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Director: Jean-Claude Rousseau
  • Production: Capricci Films
  • Country: France
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Overview:

Rousseau's first full-length feature, and one of the best documentaries/experimental films of the past few decades, sprung equally from Robert Bresson, Michael Snow, and Jean-Marie Straub (who has called Rousseau one of the three best working artists in modern Europe). Again hard places played against drifting sounds from unseen sites beyond the image; the images and sounds, repeated, become inflections of each other. But this time there are historical inflections; Rousseau's film, like Straub's, takes place in a sort of meta-history as characters and ancient sites each become products of outside light and shadow.

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