| | The Mystery of Oberwald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | Based on Jean Cocteau's "L'Aigle à Deux Têtes", "The Mystery of Oberwald" is an anomaly in Michelangelo Antonioni's opus for at least two reasons: Never before did he direct a film using costumes, and never did he borrow a screenplay from another director. |
 | | In Oberwald, the anarchist does not throw the bomb but metaphorically by the Queen who paradoxically affirms, "If I were not the queen, I would myself be an anarchist." Poetry and feelings are more important for her than imperatives of court. |
 | | He reconstitutes the portrait of Elisabeth of Austria faithfully, dressing her in fl (the fl of mourning, the fl of anguish
the fl of anarchy?) and stylizing her coiffure the same way that Leopold Horowitz did in his magisterial portrait of the Queen, painted the very year of her death. |
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