La Vallee
| Data: 1972 Miejsce: Jakość video: 5 |
While The Godfather was making
moviegoers an offer they couldn't refuse, La Vallee was wowing art-house
crowds with its flower-powered search for paradise in the jungles of New
Guinea. It's there that an adventurous diplomat's wife (Bulle Ogier),
hoping to find the forbidden feathers of a rare exotic bird, embarks on a
deeper, more personal quest when she encounters a makeshift family of
hippies seeking an enmapped valley from witch visitors are said never to
return. Like the structurally similar cult films from its era (including
Walkabout and Aguirre: The Wrath of God), La Vallee dazzled the post-'60s
subculture with free-spirited adventure and enigmatic beauty, captured
here through the peerless lens of cinematographer Nestor Almondros. The
hippie vibe seems mildly dated but its sensual context is timeless, and a
climatic encounter with the primitive Mapuga tribe retains an intense
cross-cultural mystique. Pink Floyd's celebrated soundtrack is mostly
heard as background ambience, but it effectively enhances the film's
compelling atmosphere of mystery and expectation. Director: Barbet Schroeder |
Added: 17.11.2003
