

Othon
Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional cast performs the drama’s original French text amid the ruins of Rome’s Palatine Hill while the noise of contemporary urban life hums in the background. Their lines are executed with a terrific flatness and frequently through heavy accents; the language in Othon becomes not merely an expression but a thing itself, an element whose plainness here alerts us to qualities of the work that might otherwise be subordinated.
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- French
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United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival12 Sept 1970
- Theatrical (limited)St. Marks Cinema, New York18 Nov 1971
FranceFR
- Theatrical13 Jan 1971
GermanyDE
- PremiereMannheim Film Festival8 Oct 1970
- TVZDF26 Jan 1971
ItalyIT
- PremiereRapallo Film Festival4 Jan 1970
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Othon was released on 13 January 1971.
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