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Rocinante (1986)
A very intelligent film ...
... also quite beautiful. Rarely as the English countryside been filmed so well.
The politically astute directors play with the nature of representation through the ages.
England is depicted as 'a garden of secrets, full of tradition and myth, violence and cover-up'.
John Hurt breaks into a derelict cinema and has a conversation about narrative and images with an ex-projectionist which leads him to take to the road.
He calls his truck Rocinante, which was the name of Quixote's horse - the film mirrors Cervantes' storytelling style.
The journey to Dartmoor involves a encounter with Jess - a political activist inspired by the 1984 miners strike and conspiring to develop new ways of technological sabotage. Hacker-wise, it was ahead of it's time.
Ian Dury keeps walking in and out of the frame with poetic comments.
Good stuff.