Joseph Losey's 1979 Don Giovanni manages to be both faithful to the Mozart opera, and intriguingly imaginative in its cinematic sense. One needn't be familiar with the opera to approach this sumptuous film, but those familiar with Losey will surely recognize his hand in the rivettingly thematic visuals. Martyn Auty writes in Monthly Film Bulletin:
“....The ideological pattern of this Don Giovanni is one of hysteria held in check by classicism.... The visual contradictions of the cool, rectangular lines of the architecture and the exotic eighteenth-century frescoes on the Palladian villa, La Rotonda, encapsulate the tensions of Losey's direction, alternatively letting the characters run riot (in a series of lengthy, fluid tracking sequences) and trapping them in formal compositions that are either theatrical (the sequences played inside the Teatro Olimpico) or consciously painterly (the scenes of barges ferrying characters through the Venetian marshlands)....”

Matinee Admission: $2.00