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Release Date: 07 March, 2000 Retail Price: $29.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
The Trial Reviews
Franz Orson Kafka Welles!
The magnificent frame employment, accent even more the claustrophobic atmosphere about a man in an unnamed country, arrested for an unexplained crime he is never told about. The unbearable tension joins with bureaucratic struggle to involve us in a nightmare of uncalculated magnitude.
Anthony Perkins' emotive memory after Psycho fit with adjusted accuracy. A magnificent cast headed by Jeanne Moreau, Akim Tamirof, Elsa Martinelli and Welles too.
A fundamental icon of the cinematography.
Footnote: It should be known that a special request of Welles around a documental that included at least some shots of the Atomic Bomb were totally denied to him. Something similar happened with Kubrick when he asked for flight sequences of the B-52 IN Dr. Strangelove.
Paranoid fantasy -
- or simple documentary of modern life? I've had my doubts.
Kafka's story builds an atmosphere of mystery and confusion, a sense that there are huge forces at work, and a feeling that Josef K is simply irrelevant to his own life. Welles takes that feeling frames it in stark, surreal black and white. The first scene shows a claustrophobic apartment, with ceiling barely above head-height. Later, there's Josef's agoraphobic workplace, apparently an aircraft hangar tiled with desks to create some hellish typing pool. After that, other scenes show endless racks of files, bottomless heaps of bundled paper, and jagged landscapes of light and shadow - lots of shadows. It was like Dante's Inferno recast in a 1950s office environment, with petty bureaucrats as the demons.
I haven't read The Trial in years, not since I was a project manager. Honestly, I learned more about project management from that book than from any other source. This movie brings back that sinking feeling all over again, but safely encased in the glass of a video screen.
//wiredweird
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