Oeil pour Oeil

[Elliot Berlin]

I 'spose this is the film about which you inquire.  The entry is from what
is universally regarded as the greatest single source for film history
research, Microsoft Cinemania 97...

An Eye for an Eye
France (1957): Drama
Pauline Kael Review

No rating, Color

Also known as OEIL POUR OEIL.
The early sequences, in which Curt Jurgens, as a successful, sophisticated
European doctor, is stranded in a remote, corrupt Arab settlement where he
can communicate with no one, have the fascination and humor of a Paul Bowles
story. But the director, Andr? Cayatte, destroys his own best effects, and
he winds up with his two principal characters in an apparently endless
desert-which is what the movie also turns into. The plot is one of those
terrible trick ideas that sometimes work on the screen. When it collapses
here, you've got nothing except atmosphere. That's not a total loss.
Christian Matras' cinematography may have you convinced that you're in
strange Levantine byways, within walking distance of Damascus. (The picture
was actually shot in southern Spain.) With Folco Lulli, Lea Padovani, and
Pascale Audret. In French.


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----- Original Message -----
From: <PercySun at aol.com>
To: <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: No Subject


>
> I've got a question that I hope someone can answer, although it's not
> strictly speaking about Japan or Japanese film.
> Abe K?b? talks about a French (I think) film called "Oeil pour Oeil" (An
Eye
> for an Eye) in his 1958 essay, "Sabaku no shis?" (Desert ideology).
> Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this film in video or dvd
format?
> And/or, any more information on it? Naturally director/character names
etc.
> are all only given in katakana, leaving me clueless.
> In the off chance...
> Thanks in advance,
> Nina Cornyetz