That he had to follow a veritable masterpiece on the same subject does not diminish the sterling worth of parts of this effort.
Olmi was a Catholic as well as a Marxist so the film isn't as angry, and is far more beautiful, than that other masterpiece of the same genre from Latin America, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos's Barren Lives.
However, redemption came in 2007 with Philippoussis's star turn on reality TV show Age Of Love (not to be confused with Scooter's Eurotrance masterpiece of the same name), in which the again-injured star had to choose a mate from a pool of 'cougars' (women aged 39 48) and 'kittens' (women aged 21 27).
Then there's A Burial at Ornans, which is easily as preternaturally desolate as Gustave Courbet's realist masterpiece of the same name, even when it drags its ruined bones out of the Stygian doom (around the 6 57 mark) and goes batshit crazy.
Section 4, "Metamorphosis," takes its title from his masterpiece of the same name, a long, horizontal panel of tessellations that culminates in a view of Atrani, a tiny town on Italy's Amalfi coast where Escher spent his honeymoon.
Because of the near-perfect execution of a calibrated but dangerous plan, the battle is often seen as a tactical masterpiece of the same stature as Cannae, the celebrated triumph by Hannibal some 2,000 years before.
"The title is borrowed from Umberto Lenzi's 1988 supernatural schlock masterpiece of the same name, but like most tracks with borrowed titles in our current crop of songs the lyrics have nothing to do with the source material and instead focus on elements of lifelong battle with insomnia," they said.
It produced a series of masterpieces, in the same way as Puccini and Verdi in 19th-century opera".
Lucifer, which is generally regarded as van den Vondel's masterpiece, treats the same theme as had John Milton: the inexplicable revolt of the angels against God.
