I was trying to track down a film I saw in a San Francisco arthouse, ca. 1973-75, and much to my surprise, not everything can be found on the Internet. It was a cautionary sci-fi tale called “Call Me a Cannibal,” based on Antigone. Dissidents were being shot in the streets, and left to decay by order of the government, who thought it served as a warning against further uprisings. You know what happens next if you’re familiar with the original source. The final scene had a young girl sitting amongst the dead bodies (as people walked by with handkerchiefs to their noses) strumming a guitar and singing a song that went, in part, “Call me a cannibal, I won’t die.”
I must regularly visit every obscure cinematic site on the Web, and I’m beginning to believe this was some sort of hallucination or something. Has anyone else seen this?
This sounds like the same movie:
I’ve never seen it, though.
I believe that’s it. Thank you!
Now to try to find a copy . . .
dear
A forty years ago you were not victim of an hallucination. The movie you saw in 1973-75 really exists. His title is not “Call me a cannibal”, but simply “I cannibali”. Is an italian movie of 1970, directed by Liliana Cavani, with Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland, Delia Boccardo and others. Is a transposition in a distopic future (but not too different from what was our present in the seventies and from what is now) of the myth of Antigone.
Call me a cannibal, I want die, was the refrain of the song with wich the movie begins and finishes.The singer was Don Powell, an american singer, I think.
If you write “I cannibali Liliana Cavani” on google, you find a lot of sites on this movie, but, unfortunately for you, every information is in italian
Bye
Paolo