Like CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS, CAPRICIOUS SUMMER is essentially a sexcapade... but without the political backdrop of a World War. While I much prefer the absolute beauty of the black and white images captured in CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS (would-be cinematographers, please take note), CAPRICIOUS SUMMER boasts beautiful imagery of its own. The director's eye for composition is impeccable. His own turn, as the acrobat tightroping his way through an elicit affair, is as much fun to watch as Chaplin or Polanski or Woody Allen. (One can't help but feel for the guy when we see him, shoulders slumped, sitting in the doorway of his travelling gypsy wagon listening to his "new love" as she plucks a chicken for dinner. He is enduring what the woman's husband had had to endure for years, and it ain't a whole lotta fun...) Very taut direction; like walking a tightrope, every move exact.
Review of Capricious Summer
