Renaissance painting dramatised

Mutley-2

The colours and textures of previous eras are rarely captured in film.

The Baby of Macon, a deeply thoughtful and masterfully tragic picture, brilliantly captures the shapes and tones of early Renaissance high art and combines them with the content of late medieval notation style painting.

The sounds and the staging reflect back to early theatre and the 'smells' of the scenes are almost tangible - something that always means that I am absorbed in the energy of a film.

A brilliant piece of atmospheric cinema, combined with the confusing, shocking world that is late medieval quasi- religious morality tales.

score 9/10

Mutley-2 27 October 1998

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