Caligula: The Ultimate Cut
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Tinto Brass Run Time: 178 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023 Language: Italian
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Teresa Ann Savoy
Shadowed by the murder of his entire family, the young, wary Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather (Peter O’Toole) and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire, descending into a spiral of depravity, destruction, and madness. A treatise on the corrupting influence of power, this extensive reconstruction of the notorious 1980 spectacle, CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT restores the complete performances of McDowell and Helen Mirren, as the promiscuous ‘Caesonia’, from an unprecedented amount of never before seen footage. With John Gielgud, amid sumptuous designs by two-time Oscar winner Danilo Donati (Fellini’s CASSANOVA; ROMEO & JULIET). An official selection of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.