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Judex (1963)
Dreams and art
9 May 2011 - 4 out of 6 users found this review helpful.
I saw Judex in 1964 in the movie Theater movie Niza in Barcelona. I was a teenager and I remained shocked by the images fascination. I review the film time to time. It is a masterpiece to recover the spirit of the old shows by Louis Feuillade before the I World War, with love and taking care of infinite details. If we compare the images with those taken in fresh air by Feuillade in 1912-14 Paris we can realize the accurate work of the art directors. All movie is an exercise of cinematographic calligraphy that only a poet can do. Franju and Luis Buñuel are the greatest surrealist in cinema history. This sequence of the masked dance is the best I have never seen: there is magic in the pigeon mask by Edith Scob..
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