THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY (1972) ¢ ¢
D: Joseph Losey
Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider,
Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno
Richard Burton plays the exiled revolutionary in the days before his death in Mexico in 1940. There are some striking visual flourishes in this - look for the reflections - but the overall effect is brooding, didactic and sometimes silly. For metaphorical purposes, there's also some graphic bullfight footage that viewers who aren't partial to animal cruelty might want to steer clear of.
