Friday 17 August 2018

First days of cinema


The Last Days of Pompeii (1908)

Directed by Arturo Ambrosio and Luigi Maggi this film is loosely based on the novel of the same name. True love struggles to run it's course and then a city gets engulfed in ash.

The plot of this film is not overly interesting and very much a whistle stop tour of it's source material. I was also disappointed that the destruction of the city seemed to be a bit of an after thought for the film makers. Well made for the period but not overly remarkable.

3/5

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