he camera to tell the story, or rather not to tell it.
For a movie that is labeled as "dance", there is no dancing except for three scenes incorporating mechanical dancelike exercises: Antigone and her sister Ismene grasping each other's arms to bend each other up and down, back and forth in an expression of grief after Oedipus has drowned himself in a stream in Act One; another in Act Three when Antigone writhes and flexes against a wall to show her contempt for her uncle Creon's death decree against her; and Ismene writhing around Antigone in the same act to get her to back down with Creon. Otherwise, the actors are all stiffly blocked, posed and
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