★★★☆☆ When T.S. Eliot consented to an adaptation of his 1935 verse drama Murder in the Cathedral, his vision of the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, he predicted a "very unusual film". He wasn't wrong. George Hoellering's picture is a cold, austere vision, full of linguistic poetry; undeniably stagy but also packing in moral crises that remind of Ingmar Bergman and the Carl Theodor Dreyer. Murder in the Cathedral, despite its incantation-like verse structure, delivers a strangely ethereal quality on screen.
- 12/8/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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