The Man Called Noon / Lo chiamavano Mezzogiorno (Peter Collinson, 1973)

[JonathanCorbett]

@stanton

It was too boring and too badly made to deserve more than a 2 from me.

Boring? In places.

@stanton

The film looks incredible poor, especially when Collinson uses (overuses) wide angle lenses, which make pretty ugly looking images in this clean looking film. It may be only the fault of the VHS version I have seen, but the colors look shitty too

Ugly looking images and shitty colors? Absolutely not, visually it is a rather sophisticated movie. But…

@scherpschutter

the compositions look very studied with all these wagon wheels, rocks and tree-stumps that are put between the camera and the actors. At first this looks great, but after a while it starts getting on your nerves

… scherpschutter is right, you can have too much of a good thing.

The movie cannot be classified as spaghetti western, so if you have no objections I’ll edit the category of this topic.