The Antiquities of Rome (movie)
Les antiquités de Rome- User score: 7.2
- Production country: France
- Producer: Jean-Claude Rousseau
- Production companies: Capricci Films
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 11/21/1989
- Run time: 105 min.
Movie description
Rousseau's first full-length feature, and one of the best documentaries/experimental films of the past few decades, sprung equally from Robert Bresson, Michael Snow, and Jean-Marie Straub (who has called Rousseau one of the three best working artists in modern Europe). Again hard places played against drifting sounds from unseen sites beyond the image; the images and sounds, repeated, become inflections of each other. But this time there are historical inflections; Rousseau's film, like Straub's, takes place in a sort of meta-history as characters and ancient sites each become products of outside light and shadow.
