Triumphal March
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / military, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Our read · Triumphal March (1976) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · military entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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