The Mystery of Oberwald

The Mystery of Oberwald Italian Il mistero di Oberwald is a 1981 Italian drama film written, directed, and edited by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, and Franco Branciaroli. Based on the 1946 play LAigle deux ttes by Jean Cocteau, the film is about a man who breaks into the castle at Oberwald to kill the queen but faints before doing so. The mans physical resemblance to the murdered king leads to a strange turn of events. The Mystery of Oberwald received the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon in 1982.

Upon its theatrical release, The Mystery of Oberwald received generally negative reviews. In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called it a movie that probably wouldnt last five minutes in front of an audience in control of its wits and with no more than a passing interest in Art for its own sake. Canby concluded, The only thing that makes The Mystery of Oberwald bearable is watching the Italian directors attempts to use video color techniques that are supposed to make more dramatic a fairly conventional narrative.On the review aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 57 positive rating from critics based onreviews, and apositive audience rating based on 339 user ratings. ........

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