[Editor's note: Beket had it's world premier at Locarno and just had it's North American premier]
Year: 2008
Release date: Unknown
Directors: Davide Manuli
Writers: Davide Manuli
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 7 out of 10
Davide Manuli's Beket is a black-and-white film from Italy about… hmm… “about”… funny word. Longing? Sort of. Waiting? For sure. Well-dressed Itailan men? Some what. Floating buses? Doesn’t hurt to mention it. Idleness? Is the playground of the devil. Trance music? I’m becoming more sympathetic to it. The search? Definitely! Beket is about the search, and what happens when you get to the one woman who can lead you to what it is you are searching for.
Sort of.
Before the film began I wondered what version of Becket I would encounter. Would it be Krapp, Endgame, Happy Days, Godot? The opening two scenes, first a man walking alone over an expanse of dried earth, followed by him being greeted by a man on a horse lead by a servant,...
Year: 2008
Release date: Unknown
Directors: Davide Manuli
Writers: Davide Manuli
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 7 out of 10
Davide Manuli's Beket is a black-and-white film from Italy about… hmm… “about”… funny word. Longing? Sort of. Waiting? For sure. Well-dressed Itailan men? Some what. Floating buses? Doesn’t hurt to mention it. Idleness? Is the playground of the devil. Trance music? I’m becoming more sympathetic to it. The search? Definitely! Beket is about the search, and what happens when you get to the one woman who can lead you to what it is you are searching for.
Sort of.
Before the film began I wondered what version of Becket I would encounter. Would it be Krapp, Endgame, Happy Days, Godot? The opening two scenes, first a man walking alone over an expanse of dried earth, followed by him being greeted by a man on a horse lead by a servant,...
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