Acteón
MovieTitle | Acteón |
User score | 5.2 |
Release date | Jun 13, 1967 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Jorge Grau |
Production country | Spain |
Production companies | X Films |
Run time | 75 min. |
An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.