A Walk With Love and Death
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Two lovers act out a brief, doomed romance while their world comes apart around them in Huston’s oblique 14th-century take on the “make love not war” generation.
When Huston decided in 1969 to make a film about the “make love, not war” generation, he set it during the Hundred Years’ War. In A Walk with Love and Death, two lovers—an idealistic Parisian student and a teenage noblewoman—act out a brief, doomed romance while their world comes apart around them. The result is one of Huston’s most delicate films and also one of his least forgiving: a tough-minded meditation on the fragility of happiness and the contingency of peace. Anjelica Huston, then 18, made her acting debut in the movie’s lead.
27 Nov 1968, Vienna, Austria — Original caption: 11/27/1968-Vienna: With her head bowed, Anjelica Huston listens intently to her father, John Huston, during the filming of 20th Century-Fox “A Walk With Love and Death,” on location near Vienna. The film is Angelica’s first and is being directed by her famous father. She is co-starring with […]
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