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Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009)
Directed by Peter Whitehead
Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · 2h 35m
Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey's murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter Whitehead is based around a mesmerizing psycho-geographical exploration of modern day Vienna. The film incorporates a record of the subversive underbelly of the city into a poetic meditation on conspiracy theory, ecoterrorism, time and cinema, retracing the story of The Third Man. Adapted from a trilogy of Whitehead's own Nohzone novels, the objective and subjective becomes blurred as the film director merges with the fictional detective in a journey into the murky activities of covert counter-insurgency groups. Kaleidoscopic in intent, the film mixes Noh theatre, Victorian novels, Vienna after the war, opium, domain names and Jacob's ladder "pitched twixt Heaven and Charring Cross".
Cast
Alice Schneider
Crew
- Director
- Peter Whitehead
- Writer
- Sophie Strohmeier, Peter Whitehead
Details
- Release date
- 2009-10-22
- Runtime
- 2h 35m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, German
- Countries
- Austria, United Kingdom