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Paradise Now

Paradise Now

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 21, 1970

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

42%

Original Title

Paradise Now

Director

Sheldon Rochlin

Description

At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously responsible for the marvellous Vali) to make the 'definitive' film about one of the most famous of their works, Paradise Now, shot in Brussels and at the Berlin Sportpalast. Made on videotape, with expressionist colouring 'injected' by electronic means, this emerges as a hypnotic transmutation of a theatrical event into poetic cinema, capturing the ambiance and frenzy of the original. No documentary record could have done it justice.