104 mins |
Rated
PG
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Starring Michel Piccoli, Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal, Tito Junco
Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Jungle Adventure Spotlight, playing all through April.
'After the relatively commercial ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, Luis Buñuel returned to the surrealist and political style of his earlier works with DEATH IN THE GARDEN [La mort en ce jardin] the middle film in what has been described as his “revolutionary triptych”, a trilogy of films that “study in the morality and tactics of armed revolution against a right-wing dictatorship”.
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives—a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel), and the miner’s deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon)—are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted, and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Filmed in stunning Eastmancolor, DEATH IN THE GARDEN is both a rousing adventure film, and a surrealist tour de force.'
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Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Jungle Adventure Spotlight, playing all through April.
'After the relatively commercial ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, Luis Buñuel returned to the surrealist and political style of his earlier works with DEATH IN THE GARDEN [La mort en ce jardin] the middle film in what has been described as his “revolutionary triptych”, a trilogy of films that “study in the morality and tactics of armed revolution against a right-wing dictatorship”.
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives—a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel), and the miner’s deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon)—are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted, and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another.
Filmed in stunning Eastmancolor, DEATH IN THE GARDEN is both a rousing adventure film, and a surrealist tour de force.'