Rate: Paradise Now
Using a scale from 0-lifeless to 10-ecstatic, please rate activities that apply to this movie.Paradise Now
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 148
Released: 1970-03-21
Running Time: 105 Minutes
At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously responsible for the marvellous Vali) to make the 'definitive' film about one of the most famous of their works, Paradise Now, shot in Brussels and at the Berlin Sportpalast. Made on videotape, with expressionist colouring 'injected' by electronic means, this emerges as a hypnotic transmutation of a theatrical event into poetic cinema, capturing the ambiance and frenzy of the original. No documentary record could have done it justice.