Favorite European Movies?

Hi,

It's a tough film to get through, but one thing that carries it beautifully is one actor ... Sir John Gielgud, and it's like his words are alive and it makes Shakespeare sound a lot better than we think.

The visual side is crazy, insane and out of this world, and putting a thinking mind to use is a challenge and then some, since it will throw off any idea you have about the whole thing, but it is really well done, despite it being ... the experimental Shakespeare that some folks in England's RSC and NT dreamed about in the mid 1960's! But we got Peter Brook and Peter Hall and Jonathan Miller that made it worth while! 

Their visionary and idealistic works are massive and historic, and it shows the progress that theater was going through, something that also happened in music (both rock and jazz) just slightly later ... although in America Miles Davis was already breaking the grounds into smithereens with his improvised concerts. Something that rock music never learned in almost all of the world, with maybe a smidge of an example in Germany for a few years before it died!