Miklós Jancsó-Szerelmem, Elektra (1974)

Electra has vowed revenge for the murder of her father. She waits for the return of her brother, who will exact justice.
In an awesome leap of imagination, Miklos Jancso, one of the world's great filmmakers, re-locates the classic myth on a desolate Hungarian plain. Here, the nail-biting drama plays out against the rituals of naked girls and galloping horsemen. The film is shot as a visual epic, with elaborate camera moves that are Jancso's famous signature. When Electra takes off in a red helicopter, the story catapults into the future, in an awesome master-stroke that leaves the audience breathless. (-DVD cover)


ELEKTRA is more impressionistic... like a strange, continuously flowing film-ballet, it comes across like a sombre musical, an ancient Greek play transformed into an unusual ritual on the Hungarian plain. At 75 minutes, it is a distillation of Jansco's style, a brief, inspiring introduction to this unique artist. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0072241/usercomments)


It is a classic,modern in its portrayal and ageless in its storytelling. It defies description, because it is dance drama, classic theatre, melodrama and modern politics all wrapped into one. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0072241/usercomments)


More like a play filmed on a barren plain, this movie is marked by long takes and constant motion of people and horses in the background. A nice re-telling of the wait for Orestes' homecoming blending anachronistic props and ancient rituals seeming to come from "Le Sacre du Printemps." Constant dancing and mass movement of horses with the the drumming of the hoofbeats and the gunshot cracks of whips makes sound a character itself and adds tension to the whole movie. Avoid this unless you like art films and the unusual (http://imdb.com/title/tt0072241/usercomments)


Jancsò's political fables have been more subtle and penetrating than this version of the drama of Elektra and Orestes, but his images have rarely been more beautiful. The process (celebration of the old order, overturning of the old order, departure of the revolutionary who must not create a new order) is played out as a continuous ritual performance in the buildings and the vast space surrounding an abandoned farm on the Hungarian plain which is Jancsò's particular, eerie, completely unmistakable place. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0072241/usercomments)


Jancsò's sense of place - created from landscape, architecture, customs and costumes, music and light and the most ubiquitous and permanent mark of this life (in Jancsò's Hungary, horses) - is comparable only to Paradjanov's, and, in this film, at least, their aesthetics come so close that one feels that they should have been not just mutual influences, but friends (http://imdb.com/title/tt0072241/usercomments)





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