1979 · drama · history · political
Caligula
Directed by Tinto Brass2h 36m1979
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Our read: Caligula (1979) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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