Camille 2000
Introduction by Radley Metzger on August 9.
One of the best and most visually inventive films from Metzger’s European phase is a retelling of Alexandre Dumas’s The Lady of the Camellias, the tragic story of doomed love between an eligible bachelor and a beautiful kept woman.
Introduction by Radley Metzger on August 9.
The decadent high society of late-1960s Rome gets the royal treatment in one of the best and most visually inventive films from Metzger’s European phase. Set in a world of jaded and over-sexed beautiful people dressed in increasingly outrageous costumes, and interspersed with a succession of ever more debauched parties, this faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s The Lady of the Camellias tells the tragic story of doomed love between eligible bachelor Armand (Nino Castelnuovo) and beautiful but remote Marguerite (Danièle Gaubert), a kept woman. But in this collision of Old Europe grandeur and ’60s mod stylings, heroin is the new tuberculosis…
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