Acteón 1967

  • 1967-06-13
  • 1h 15m
  • Jorge Grau
  • Ovide (original story) + 1 more, Jorge Grau (story)
  • Spain
  • Spanish; Castilian
  • X Films
  • Drama
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.

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