La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra

Roberto Gavaldon would resume the soothsayers subject in his remarkable film noir "palma di tu mano "(1954) ; here one deals with comedy and most of the time ,as a spoof on sword and sandals movies, it succeeds.

Astutely blending modern times and antiquity , using the same characters in both "eras" ,it's often riotously funny;Luis Sandrini , who rolls his eyes and makes his mummy in the pyramid squint , is an efficient comic actor; in Ceasar's times, he becomes himself some kind of seer, trying to warn the Roman general against his enemies ,and when the tragic event occurs , he has a terse :"it was written" (in my history book) ;history is given a rough ride , for instance Ptolemy ,Cleo's brother (and hubby) was dead a long time ago when Mark Anthony was living with his queen in Egypt ,but what 's the matter? The comedy works ,and using a soothsayer's powers to make the unfortunate hero a time traveler is not derivative .In spite of the scene in the arena which drags on and an Egyptian orgy complete with dances which recall south-American samba , there's hardly a dull moment.