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Giordano Bruno (1973)
Tense,gripping, intelligent Period piece
6 December 2016 - 6 out of 8 users found this review helpful.
This a film for the thoughtful. It relies on intelligent dialogue,great acting and period recreation. If you want action, look somewhere else,but this film is simply DRIPPING with dramatic tension from start to finish.
It is gripping portrait of the times and politics when the church sought to consolidate it's power over a changing world and persecuted many like Bruno, Copernicus, Galileo.
Due to constraints of time it only outlines the free thinking ideas and philosophy of Bruno that led to his trial for heresy.If you want to understand them fully you must look to his writings.
I saw one post that said he found it boring ; I can't believe that. I found it riveting from the first frame!
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