Acteón

Acteón

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 13, 1967

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Drama

User Score

52%

Original Title

Acteón

Production Companies

X Films

Director

Jorge Grau

Description

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.