Adagio

Adagio

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1983

Runtime

0h 8m

Original Title

Adagio

Director

Lawrence Jordan

Description

Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates two nude figures in California idyll. They remain physically separated but Jordan’s spellbinding cutting and tactile camerawork suggest a loosening of inhibition. Parisian fountains and classical statues signal the deep cultural bedrock for the filmmaker’s ostensibly freewheeling portraiture.