Acteón

(1967)

★ 5.6 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1967

Runtime: 75 мин

Country: Spain

Director: Jorge Grau

Cast: Martin LaSalle, Pilar Clemens, Juan Luis Galiardo, Claudia Gravy, Iván Tubau, Nieves Salcedo, Virginia Quintana, Guillermo Méndez

Plot

An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an enchanting, flirtatious stranger into the city.