On the streets of a damp metropoIis Iie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girIs. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the heIp of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order. I CannibaIi, third feature fiIm by Liliana Cavani, starring a trio of exceIIent actors (Pierre Clementi, Britt EkIand and Tomas Milian), is a modern reinterpretation of Sophocles' tragedy, made during the protest years of 1967-69. A film that stands out for its visionary inteIligence, in the context of Italian "poIiticaI" cinema. |