48/21
– see footage restored many years after its release
Tale
Follows Caligula as he murders his deceitful adoptive grandfather and takes control of a decadent Roman Empire that descends into debauchery, devastation and madness. The film is a complete re-imagining of Caligula (1979) based on 96 never-before-seen hours. Curated by historian Thomas Negovan, the "Ultimate Cut" a movie was made. Instead of expanding existing scenes with new footage, the entire film was edited from scratch, resulting in a version that does not contain a single shot from the theatrical version. Visual effects were used to enhance scenes and replace cheap sets and backdrops, while artificial intelligence technology was used to recreate previously incoherent dialogue that was covered in background noise.
Adapted from Caligula (1979)
A new musical score was also created, in contrast to the public ballet music. It was originally planned for a limited theatrical release in 2020. at the end, and this version premiered in 2023. at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, I’ll be honest, I think John Hurt (I Claudius – BBC – 1976) did a better Caligula, but Malcolm McDowell is still quite convincing as the despotic sex deviant who held the most power in the Roman Empire.
He lives there with the acolyte nymphs and "fishes" guided by only the vaguest semblance of decency from his friend Nerva (Sir John Gielgud)
four years. It should come as no surprise that he turned out the way he did when we’re introduced to the brooding Tiberius (Peter O’Toole) on his paradise island of Capri. When this brief sequence of hedonism quickly comes to an end, our anti-hero takes the throne and shares it with his sister Drusilla (Teresa Ann Savoy), with whom he has quite the incest. However, he is under pressure to marry and father a legitimate child – and along comes Cezonia (Helen Mirren), a woman who is too eager to father imperial offspring while enjoying a life of luxury and squalor. It’s a part of the story that’s actually quite peripheral to this shockingly scripted exercise in soft porn, which we’re now going to watch in all its three-hour glory.
Instead, McDowell vigorously whips him as he runs around scantily clad but very little
It’s clear that no expense has been spared in the look of the film, and in all fairness to director Tinto Bras, it offers us a pretty compelling look at a despotic court ruled by a monarch who believed he was a god – and who few were prepared to argue with. Perhaps because of the last point "Longinus" (John Steiner) takes a decisive position. He is the chancellor who, along with the praetorian commander Chaerea (Paolo Bonacelli), has grown increasingly disgusted with the antics of this man with the thinnest grasp of reality. The whole store has nudity to the point where it becomes harmless, and once you get used to it, the rest of it doesn’t have a chance to represent a twist on historical decadence. .
You may never eat cottage cheese again!
It’s bleak, there’s no other word for it – and the unwelcome interlude brought any pacing to a complete halt, seemingly exploding the most awkward episodic ways to the consequences the story told nearly two thousand years ago. Seemingly unsure whether this is a film or a sequence of short plays, Mirren adds nothing and the wonderfully odious O’Toole isn’t long enough to make a difference. Sure, it’s a mess, and this final cut is way too long, but somehow it’s not unwatchable.
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