72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Figures in a Landscape

Joseph Losey
UK      110 m.
Synopsis

The subject of persecution, so recurrent in Losey’s cinema, is taken to the nth degree of abstraction in this work. Two men flee through an inhospitable landscape plagued with dangers. A helicopter chases them incessantly, like a tenacious, tireless animal with no intention of giving up on its prey. It’s not clear who’s hunting them or why. A fascinating existential metaphor anticipating a good deal of today’s cinema, starring Robert Shaw (before Jaws) and Malcolm McDowell (before A Clockwork Orange).

Director
Joseph Losey
Screenplay
Robert Shaw
Production
Cinecrest Film Ltd., Cinema Center Films
Photography
Henri Alekan, Guy Tabary, Peter Suschitzky
Edition
Reginald Beck
Music
Richard Rodney Bennett
Cast
Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm, Pamela Brown
Running Time
110 m.
Country
UK
Year
1970
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