music by Charles Mingus and Shafi Hadi
The closing titles of Shadows say “The film you have just seen was an improvisation”. According to Wikipedia, “it was intensively rehearsed in 1957, and in 1959 it was fully scripted”. So... were those titles a lie?
I say, if it looks and sounds like an improvisation, it probably is an improvisation. Some scenes in the film look like they were scripted and others as if they were not. I suppose the adventures of Lelia were scripted and rehearsed more than those of the trio of slackers Ben, Dennis and Tom.
Shadows opens the John Cassavetes cycle organised by Filmoteca Canaria.
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