La mort en ce jardin (1956)
(Death in the Garden)
Country: FR/MEX
Technical: col 104m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal
Synopsis:
Assorted characters crash in the South American jungle and waver between prospecting for diamonds and getting out alive.
Review:
Familiar drama with the usual types: priest, adventurer, whore, redemptive native girl, all pitted against nasty Mexican Army lookalikes. There are few marks of the director's hand at work, save a shot of a dead snake being devoured by ants, and it is too slow to move into the titular jungle. But I suppose the less than appealing characters are if anything improved by the experience of the trek, rather than, as so often, its bringing out the worst in them.
(Death in the Garden)
Country: FR/MEX
Technical: col 104m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal
Synopsis:
Assorted characters crash in the South American jungle and waver between prospecting for diamonds and getting out alive.
Review:
Familiar drama with the usual types: priest, adventurer, whore, redemptive native girl, all pitted against nasty Mexican Army lookalikes. There are few marks of the director's hand at work, save a shot of a dead snake being devoured by ants, and it is too slow to move into the titular jungle. But I suppose the less than appealing characters are if anything improved by the experience of the trek, rather than, as so often, its bringing out the worst in them.
(Death in the Garden)
Country: FR/MEX
Technical: col 104m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal
Synopsis:
Assorted characters crash in the South American jungle and waver between prospecting for diamonds and getting out alive.
Review:
Familiar drama with the usual types: priest, adventurer, whore, redemptive native girl, all pitted against nasty Mexican Army lookalikes. There are few marks of the director's hand at work, save a shot of a dead snake being devoured by ants, and it is too slow to move into the titular jungle. But I suppose the less than appealing characters are if anything improved by the experience of the trek, rather than, as so often, its bringing out the worst in them.