This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa.
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Title: Needlework Pictures Presents Francesco Vezzoli in Gore Vidal's 'Caligula' (2005)
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Francesco Vezzoli | ... | Caligula |
| Gore Vidal | ... | Self | |
| Adriana Asti | ... | Ennia | |
| Karen Black | ... | Agrippina | |
| Barbara Bouchet | ... | Caesonia | |
| Gerard Butler | ... | Prefect Cassius Chaerea | |
| Benicio Del Toro | ... | Macro | |
| Milla Jovovich | ... | Druscilla | |
| Helen Mirren | ... | Tiberia | |
| Michelle Phillips | ... | Messalina | |
| Glenn Shadix | ... | Claudius | |
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| Courtney Love | ... | Caligula | |
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This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa.
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15 June 2005 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula See more »Filming Locations:
Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USAEdit
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A conceptual film from Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, first shown at the 2005 Venice Biennale and later traveling to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The work is conceived as a trailer for an imaginary remake of the infamous Tinto Brass/Bob Guccioni sexploitation fiasco that was 'Caligola'. Instead of shooting in the ruins of Rome, however, his location is a tacky Roman-lite villa in Hollywood. Instead of striving for historically accurate costumes, he has Donatella Versace design him some glamorous togas. And like Matthew Barney, he's able to talk a whole host of known (and unknown) actors to star in a an artwork that will rarely, if ever, be seen outside of a gallery (or online). The casual viewer can choose to read it all as a comment on the timeless nature of gluttony and excess or simply laugh out loud at Courtney Love's full-bodied reading of Gore Vidal's overwrought language - "I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night" - egomania as fitting for a Hollywood star as it for a Wall Street executive or an insane Emperor. Which, or course, is the point.