Movie: Apocalypse Now

by Francis Ford Coppola - USA 1979 - 146' - v.m. 14 years

In Vietnam, during the third year of the war, Captain Willard is sent to the borders of Cambodia for a secret and extremely delicate mission: he must kill Colonel Kurtz who, gone mad, is fighting his own private war. Willard goes up a river and finds himself travelling through all the circles of hell. His companions on the journey are wimps. Hardly anything is comprehensible: helicopter attacks to the beat of Wagner, an officer surfing under the bombardment, “napalm” battles that make the scene resemble a hallucinated Disneyland. He finds Kurtz-Brando in an encounter that the director charges with epic and mysterious tones: Brando, a monument more than ever, photographed in the half-light, seems more or less than a human being.

Introduction by Giuseppe Tedeschi, director

As part of the review-seminar Immagina

As part of the exhibition The Handmade Cinema.

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