The Confessions of Amans explained

The Confessions of Amans
Starring:William Bryan
Michael St. John
Susannah MacMillan
Leon Liberman
Feliciano Ituero Bravo
Stephen Bateman
Director:Gregory Nava
Cinematography:Gregory Nava
Editing:Gregory Nava
Producer:Anna Thomas
Gregory Nava
Distributor:American Film Institute
Bauer International
Runtime:88 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English
Budget:$24,000

The Confessions of Amans is a 1977 American 16-mm drama film directed by Gregory Nava and written by Nava and his wife Anna Thomas.[1]

The picture was partly funded by the American Film Institute.

Plot

In medieval Spain, an itinerant student of philosophy is hired by an uneducated lord to tutor his wife, but the student falls in love with her.

Production

The film was produced in Spain and on an estimated budget of $24,000, according to Roger Ebert.[2] Nava used English stage performers. To conserve money, Nava and Thomas used costumes and props remaining from Samuel Bronston's El Cid. Film locations included the castles of ancient Segovia, Spain.

Cast

Release

The Confessions of Amans was first presented in 1976 at the Chicago International Film Festival. The film opened in a limited theatrical release in New York on November 17, 1977.

Reception

Critical response

The New York Times film critic Vincent Canby wrote: "The Confessions of Amans was a very beautiful film, though not an especially pretty one, a chilly, tightly disciplined tale of the tragic love affair of a young philosophy tutor and the wife of the lord of the manor. Like the great Robert Bresson, Mr. Nava appeared to be less interested in the heat of the passion of the lovers than in the succession of moral choices their passion represented."[3]

An unsigned film review in The New York Times held that the film is "a beautiful, muted film of the kind that takes some getting used to. People seldom raise their voices or lose control of themselves. Passion is expressed discreetly in glances or in the holding of hands."[4]

Awards

Wins

Notes and References

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  2. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040801/REVIEWS08/408010301/1023 Ebert, Roger
  3. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E7DD1E38F931A15752C0A962948260 Canby, Vincent
  4. http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=Confessions%20of%20Amans%2C%20The%20(Movie)&title2=&reviewer=&pdate=19771118&v_id= The New York Times