Goto, Island of Love ( Goto, l'île d'amour )

Goto, Island of Love (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Goto, l'île d'amour
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Walerian Borowczyk

Written By:
Walerian Borowczyk

Actors:
Pierre Brasseur ..... Goto
Ligia Branice ..... Glossia
Jean-Pierre Andréani ..... Gono
Ginette Leclerc ..... Gonasta
Fernand Bercher ..... L'instituteur / Professor
Michel Charrel ..... Grymp
Pierre Collet ..... General Gwino
Raoul Darblay ..... Le juge d'instruction
Rudy Lenoir ..... La directrice
Maritin ..... Gra
Colette Régis ..... L'éxecuteur de chiens
Michel Thomass ..... Gurto
Ari Arcadi
Guy Bonnafoux
Canari

Synopsis:

This unusual comic tragedy is filmed both in color and black-and-white and concerns the residents of the mythical island of Goto. Goto III (Pierre Brasseur) is the pompous dictator who allows children to witness public execution and has criminals fight it out in a theater to resolve their differences. Everyone is assigned a menial position, leading to full employment but aimless pursuits and no chance of social advancement. A man scheduled to fight on stage runs to the dictator's wife and begs for mercy. The man is given a job in the stable but ends up killing the local flycatcher. He tells the dictator that his wife is having an affair with a lieutenant. The informer is given a gun and ordered to kill the lieutenant, but he shoots the dictator instead and assumes power. After the new dictator professes his love for the unfaithful woman, she jumps onto the stage rather than subject herself to his amorous advances in this bizarre story of social isolation and compliance.

Walerian Borowczyk s second feature was just as original as his first. Almost entirely live action this time, it is situated on the archipelago of Goto, which has been cut off from the rest of human civilisation by a massive earthquake and has consequently developed its own arcane rules. Melancholic dictator Goto III (Pierre Brasseur) is married to the beautiful Glossia (Ligia Branice), who in turn is lusted after by the petty thief Gozo (Guy Saint-Jean) as he works his way up the hierarchy. Its thinly veiled critique of totalitarianism saw it banned in both Communist Poland and Fascist Spain (to Borowczyk s delight), but the film is most notable for its uniquely original atmosphere, in which bizarre props and sets (designed by Borowczyk himself) are given as much weight as the human actors. Its grave beauty is underscored to perfection by one of Handel s organ concertos.

Borowczyk's film is an insane dream-like look into a shattered and dysfunctional world, which if I was to guess, is probably how he sees our own one.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 02 March, 2015.

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