155'
2009-10-22
Overview:
Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey's murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter Whitehead is based around a mesmerizing psycho-geographical exploration of modern day Vienna. The film incorporates a record of the subversive underbelly of the city into a poetic meditation on conspiracy theory, ecoterrorism, time and cinema, retracing the story of The Third Man. Adapted from a trilogy of Whitehead's own Nohzone novels, the objective and subjective becomes blurred as the film director merges with the fictional detective in a journey into the murky activities of covert counter-insurgency groups. Kaleidoscopic in intent, the film mixes Noh theatre, Victorian novels, Vienna after the war, opium, domain names and Jacob's ladder "pitched twixt Heaven and Charring Cross".
Details:
- Budget: 0
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- Revenue: 0
- List of countries:
- Austria
- United Kingdom
- List of languages:
- English
- German
- List of companies:
- Vote Count: 3
- Popularity: 0.6591
- Status: Released
- Original title:Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts
