"It all began here in Istanbul, on the shore of the Black Sea"

Atavisten

"I tried not to remember why I buried my horn" his voice-over says, in a state close to euphoria he philosophies about things like this playing trumpet on a beach, then he travels to Rio de Janeiro. The voice-over follows throughout, always in the lingo of the time, while he is getting in the groove in a jazz band, making love to women and so on. All in all the music is the most important for this movie, together with the nudity of course. Drama is heightened by the frenzy of samba and slowed down by a few slow jams, but mostly the tune is post-bop.

Its sensual, hazy, surreal and a great film. Manfred Mann and Jesus Franco play in the jazz band. Klaus Kinski makes his menacing appearance and the girls are good looking and well acting, what more do you want?

score 7/10

Atavisten 9 May 2005

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1076774/