The Antiquities of Rome

The Antiquities of Rome (1989)

TMDb

7.2

21/11/1989 • 1h 45m
original-title

Les antiquités de Rome

status

Released

production-companies

Capricci Films

original-language

French

budget

-

revenue

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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.

production-countries

France

spoken-languages

French

Italian

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