1977 · political · civil-war · allegory
The Hunters
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos2h 24m1977
During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…
Our read: The Hunters (1977) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive political · civil-war · allegory entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured political / civil-war, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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