A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
Acting
O'Toole at his most dissolute; Rampling icier than the ocean.
Cinematography
Desert island as suffocating velvet trap, not paradise.
Direction
Ripstein's Mexican-lensed chamber drama of European decay.
Director
Arturo Ripstein
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