This is an unusual low budget film, yet very interesting for its underground historic genre. It is definitely one of its kind, and not something you see every day. The presence of the obvious nostalgia for the old 1960's European cinema is very evident while watching this. It is evident in its intentional old look, and slightly distorted type of sound, that hasn't been heard in films, in the last 40 years or so.
Even the whole dynamic of the film seems to feel a bit distorted, seeming to cater more to atmosphere, rather then story line. Hence making it confusing at moments, but enjoyable from the ambiance point of view.
Although the style of storytelling is rather unorthodox, it doesn't come across as a deliberate protest against the norm, but rather its own path of story telling. Which seems to flow in its own way, weather it is accepted by the audience. This I found interesting, because such type of a more free and no rule following approach is often seen in the Italian cinema, especially in the earlier Fellini films from the 1950's, such as La Strada, or The White Sheik, from 1952.
476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries is definitively not your pop-corn flick that you will watch in a main stream movie theater, but its own hermit. It is not a type of a film that is made by any fashion of the presently accepted module, but rather off the grid type experimental expression. It is definitely an art-experimental type of a film, that holds its virtue based on its one of a kind originality. Sort of like a modern art painting, painted in the moments of passion, that seems to speak only to the similar viewing minds.
Even the whole dynamic of the film seems to feel a bit distorted, seeming to cater more to atmosphere, rather then story line. Hence making it confusing at moments, but enjoyable from the ambiance point of view.
Although the style of storytelling is rather unorthodox, it doesn't come across as a deliberate protest against the norm, but rather its own path of story telling. Which seems to flow in its own way, weather it is accepted by the audience. This I found interesting, because such type of a more free and no rule following approach is often seen in the Italian cinema, especially in the earlier Fellini films from the 1950's, such as La Strada, or The White Sheik, from 1952.
476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries is definitively not your pop-corn flick that you will watch in a main stream movie theater, but its own hermit. It is not a type of a film that is made by any fashion of the presently accepted module, but rather off the grid type experimental expression. It is definitely an art-experimental type of a film, that holds its virtue based on its one of a kind originality. Sort of like a modern art painting, painted in the moments of passion, that seems to speak only to the similar viewing minds.