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Caligula
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| Starring |
Malcolm MacDowell  , John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole
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1979 |
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DRAMA
ROMANCE
COSTUME
WORST
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US/ Italy |
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C |
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210 |
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Life and death of an unpleasant Roman emperor (Malcom MacDowell). |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Perhaps the least erotic sex movie of all time, with writer/producer Bob Guccione (the editor of Penthouse ) trying to beef up its impact with disgustingly gratuitous violence and obvious, poorly shot inserts of copulation between the non-stars. The 105-minute version is marginally less repellent, and has the not inconsiderable merit of being shorter. I haven't seen the longest, 210-minute version, nor do I want to. | | ANTI | | Far more Gore than Vidal... Such established names as John Gielgud and Peter O'Toole will have to be seen to be believed. Malcolm MacDowell as the sick and/or insane emperor runs the gamut of cardboard emotions from grand guignol to hapless pathos. | | | | (Variety) | | A dreary shambles, directed by Brass toto drosso con abandimento. | | | | (Chris Peachment, Time Out) | | Director Tinto Brass tries to create a surreal Felliniesque atmosphere, as was present in Fellini Satyricon , but where Fellini was sublime and funny, Brass is ugly and raunchy. He's the type of guy who will have Caligula strip the clothes off his dead sister just so viewers can get one last glimpse of her crotch - making us share Caligula's necrophilia. | | | | (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic, 1986) | | Mostly revolting except for admirers of the hard core and decapitation. | | | | (Derek Winnert, Radio Times Film and Video Guide, 1995) |
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