Rite of Spring
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intense
- inventive
- signature
Sombre, slow-burn, measured passion-play / ritual, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, according to a 16th century text.
Our read · Rite of Spring (1963) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive passion-play · ritual · documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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