
Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find the lost city of Atlantis. Ruling over this fantastic underworld realm, an evil queen sets her sights upon these strangers to her kingdom.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean passage, our heroes are surprised to find the lost city of Atlantis. Ruling over this fantastic underworld realm, an evil queen sets her sights upon these strangers to her kingdom.
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| User ReviewBen DL'Atlantide, Pierre Benoit's 1919, was first famously shot by Jacques Feyder in 1921 - that almost three hour epic showed the grandeur and scale of Benoit's imaginative science-fiction novel. The story is simple - two soldiers discover the lost city of Atlantis under the Saharan sands, and fight for the love of the Queen of Atlantis, driven to madness, and one escapes: only to desire a return to the city and the Queen but not finding the way. Feyder's version, shot in the Sahara, is a tense, dreamy evocation of Benoit's world. In 1932, G.W. Pabst, the legendary director of Pandora's Box (one of the last great silent movies) mounted his own version of this classic novel. Like Feyder he travelled to the Sahara to film, and his film has a dreamy, hallucinatory quality. It also has the blessing of having a towering, seductive performance from Brigitte Helm as the Queen (she was the robot in Metropolis too). Unlike Feyder's version, Pabst has under an hour and a half to tell his story and so much is cut, elided, or traduced in the telling. Normally such actions would make a movie feel rushed - but it does something else here - it makes the film more dreamlike. We're never quite sure what is really going on, and some sequences seem too incredible - does she really have a pet leopard? Are they playing chess or are they fucking? Pabst's film is full of these visual delusions, images that transfix your gaze and discombobulate your mind. For its short running time, L'Atlantide (The Mistress of Atlantis in its American release) is nothing less than thrilling, though flawed, beautiful yet mysterious. It is a film you will not forget easily. |
| User ReviewJames HCreative cinematography enhances an unusual film. The acting tends to be a little melodramatic. Good direction, fine score. |
| User ReviewAlberto BL'Atlantide habita en un lugar perdido entre el cine de aventuras y la ensoñacion opiacea, entre violentas tormentas de arena y misteriosas grutas subterraneas. Protagoniza la Maria de Metropolis, Brigitte Helm, de gorgonico aspecto aqui. Dirige George W. Pabst , alternando momentos de puro genio visual con un libreto que, por momentos, resulta demasiado esquematico. |
| User ReviewWes SWeak on plot, slow pacing, and uninteresting characters. Most of the story doesn't make a lot of sense, and by the end you feel bored with it anyway. It does have some interesting filming, but otherwise, it's a dull film. |
| User ReviewJustin Wi honestly don't know what to say here...i was bored out of my mind for the majority of the film...and yet, i felt compelled to watch until the very end. basically, folks find the 'lost city' of atlantis and find an evil queen ruling there. it's dull and boring...not worthy of a viewing. |
| User ReviewWilliam Wa total waste of time i want my 87 minutes back |