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I was quite amazed at how good this film was. It reminded me very much of the surrealist films of Jean Cocteau.Who would have guessed that Leslie Stevens was the equal to Cocteau, or Bergman, for that matter! The whole weird aspect of it being in Esperanto ( the language of the future--oops!)only added to the atmosphere. The black and white cinematography by Conrad Hall is gorgeous. The imagery is consistently impressive and strange. This movie casts a spell upon you while viewing. Quite haunting. William Shatner and the rest of the cast acquit themselves well with the ropy Esperanto dialog. Well worth watching. A must for cinema buffs. Remember: this is the ONLY film shot completely in Esperanto....the language of the future (oops!)...but as I mentioned earlier, that aspect is the least interesting thing about the film. The dialog might as well have been in Russian or Italian or Japanese, as far as I was concerned; the subtitles seemed to make sense, So i assume they were an accurate translation. But what impresses is the rest of the film; the dreamy atmosphere of other-worldliness...the composition and framing of every scene is expressionistic in the extreme. I loved it.
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