USA/Italy 2023, 178 min, Dir: Tinto Brass
New Restoration / New Recut Version
R – No minors
The full, unexpurgated version of Tinto Brass’s infamous soft-porn Roman epic is now, after 43 years since the version released in 1980, available to be seen! Producer and reconstructionist Thomas Negovan has realized the creators’ original vision with CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT, a version comprised of entirely never-before-seen footage shot in 1976. A treatise on the corrupting influence of power, this extensive reconstruction of the notorious 1980 spectacle, CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT restores the complete performances of McDowell and Helen Mirren, as the promiscuous ‘Caesonia’.
Shadowed by the murder of his entire family, the young, wary Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather (Peter O’Toole) and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire, descending into a spiral of depravity, destruction, and madness.
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