Title: Powerful Performances / OK Technically
Review: Competent in its technical aspects, considering its age. The main weakness is the audio, which is much improved from the VHS release but still overemphasizes "ambience" -- background noises. Some may like it that way; I suspect, however, that it was as simple a thing as poor mike placement. And again, the musical score is sparse: Some may like the stark quality that suggests, but for my tastes a little Hollywood-ization -- a little, not a lot -- would have added to the production.Please do not hear this as a bad review of this great performance, to which others have accurately paid tribute. But this is not a big-budget production and it looks and sounds like a 1970s foreign film . . . which is exactly what it is.And like others, I use it in the classroom to introduce Greek tragedy, but I caution the students not to expect "Troy" or "300." Most of them can deal with the fact that there isn't a car chase or gunfight at the end.
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