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Goto L'Ile D'Amour [1969]
 
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Goto L'Ile D'Amour [1969]
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3.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Jean-Pierre Andréani, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Bercher
  • Directors: Walerian Borowczyk
  • Format: Black & White, PAL, Subtitled
  • Language French
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Nouveaux Pictures
  • VHS Release Date: 10 Jul 2000
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004U3ZP
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,513 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Synopsis
Goto is an island which has been cut off from the rest of the world since the late 19th century. It is controlled by a sadistic leader, Goto 111, and his subjects live like human ants. French dialogue.

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Walerian Borowczyk is responsible for some of the most bizarre and memorable films to be produced over the last few decades. He has been described as both a brilliant director of art cinema and a high class pornographer. Whatever your opinion of the man, his work cannot be ignored.

Goto L'ile d'amour is a strange and starkly grim fantasy set on the island of Goto which was cut off from the rest of the world in the late 19th century. Life on the island is controlled by the sadistic ruler Goto111, his shaven haired servile subjects living like human ants - working in the stone quaries, relaxing in the state run brothels and seemingly totally loyal to their brutal leader.

Goto's wife Glossia falls in love with her riding instructor Gono (everyone's name begins with a G on Goto) with whom she attempts to flee the island, but things take a decidedly nasty turn.

The bleak austerity of the film protrays Borowczyk's formative years in eastern Europe which provide a nightmarish vision in this first live action feature.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars excellent film - awful video, 22 Jul 2000
By A Customer
arguably Borowczyk's finest film. Here the director's obsessions are composed in a rigid, formal narrative, rather than being littered across a confused jumble of dramatic situations. Totally wonderful, beautiful, crazy, stunning, original, erotic, cruel, funny, absurd.

However....Nouveaux Pictures have released the film in an unforgivable state. Not only is the print of terrible quality, crucial COLOUR sequences in the film are presented in black and white along with the rest of the film. Now, Goto might not be the most obvious film in world cinema, but surely nobody would dare release a Tarkovsky film with no colour sequences? why should the case be any different for this film? Much better materials for this film are in existence (Nouveaux must be well aware of this) - Rather than subtitle an existing 1.66:1 master with the colour sequences, Nouveaux have decided to simply use a substandard cropped, subtitled master which seems to be the same one prepared for Australian TV.

I'd be very interested to know how much it costs for a film to be subtitled as Nouveaux obviously think that it is not worth spending on a film which they themselves describe as being made by a "brilliant director".

daniel bird

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Borowczyk's emergence into the truly surreal, 6 Aug 2000
By A Customer
Not for top-25 freaks as this requires creative imagination. An ironic humour hangs over the unrolling of the action in this film. Borowczyk particularly exploits personal spaces and spaces generally between people, sometimes exploring vertical space as in the guillotine scene. Unfortunately, like Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad, it will appeal only to viewers in tune with this type of film. Those who require to have everything explained or be told a linear story may find the "plot" difficult, especially the ending. The photography and direction is superb. A fitting follow-up to Blanche.