rfi: valerio zurlini.

is what I thought.

I watched his final film yesterday, 'the desert of the tartars', it has a star-studded cast (max von sydow, jean trintignant, laurent terzieff) (the latter is the awesome minotaur in pasolini's 'medea') (also starring, as medea, maria callas!) . I vary between thinking it was 'interminable' & 'brilliant'.