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Voidsville Follies

Works from Società Anonima Ambrosio (3)

The Last Days Of Pompeii (Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei) [1908]

Arturo Ambrosio (director)
Luigi Maggi (director)
Roberto Omegna (cinematographer/writer)
Giovanni Vitrotti (cinematographer)
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (author)
Lydia De Roberti (lead)
Umberto Mozzato (lead)
Società Anonima Ambrosio (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Dec 1908
Minutes: 17

Also known as "The Last Days of Pomposity", thanks to the hilariously hammy acting.

Featured elements:

: abuse; boozy-woozy; death scene; falsely accused; heroic defender; historical drama; manipulator; melodrama; redemption; rescue; revenge; Roman empire; servitude; suicide; unrequited love

The Last Days Of Pompeii (Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei) [1913]

Eleuterio Rodolfi (director)
Mario Caserini (writer)
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (author)
Fernanda Negri Pouget (lead)
Eugenia Tettoni Fior (lead)
Ubaldo Stefani (lead)
Antonio Grisanti (lead)
Società Anonima Ambrosio (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1913
Minutes: 58

This version puts more focus on the dark deeds of the evil Egyptian high priest.

Featured elements:

: abuse; boozy-woozy; courtroom; death scene; falsely accused; heroic defender; historical drama; manipulator; melodrama; redemption; rescue; revenge; Roman empire; servitude; suicide; unrequited love

Il Fauno

Febo Mari (director/lead/writer)
Nietta Mordeglia (lead)
Helena Makowska (lead)
Vasco Creti (lead)
Oreste Bilancia (lead)
Società Anonima Ambrosio (production)

Language: Silent, Italian titles, English subtitles, released in Jun 1917
Minutes: 72

Good news:

All performers succeeded in their visual storytelling
Sparks fly whenever the two competing nymphs share the screen
Il Fauno's bod is worthy of the attention the camera gives it, despite being dickless

But otherwise, all the striving to make an obscure point went over this head that is shamelessly ignorant of mythology and symbolist poetry, and it could only endlessly repeat: “A horse is a horse, of course of course, and no one can talk to a horse of course...”...

Featured elements:

: abstraction; boozy-woozy; breaking class; diva mode; fantasy; gambling; heroic defender; infidelity; metatheatre; patriarchy; romance; servitude; sexuality

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