The Argument (1999) Donald Cammell Short Film Part 1 of 3

The Argument (1971/99) that was shot on location in the Utah desert by Vilmos Zsigmond on the sly. Cammell had obtained the camera on the grounds that Zsigmond was shooting tests for another film. This visually stunning confrontation between a frustrated film director and a goddess (played by Myriam Gibril, Cammell's lover and Isis to his Osiris in Lucifer Rising) covers many of Cammell's favourite themes, but does so in an overly obvious way, verbalising rather than dramatising the situations with the effect that the comedic dialogue becomes nothing more than an irritating distraction from the images. This is not helped by the inevitable comparisons to the magnificent Lucifer Rising that arise due to the presence of Gibril as a goddess in a desert. Cammell never completed the film. It was rediscovered and put together by his editor, Frank Mazzola, in 1999.

Myriam Gibril ....... Aisha The Witch

Kendrew Lascelles ........ Nonus

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http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/cammell.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244978/

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[redcomusic]

Ah, my friend Myriam Gibril (Aisha). She was so young here!

[Aseno08]

Thank you for posting this, and for the background info you've written.

[delysid22]

Very difficult film to find

Congratulations and many thanks

[almadora]

absolutely superb.

[novostendhal]

Merci for it,love Cammell's work

[dekoigmele]

this part is like the original, but the middle and the end have been cut quiet differently than the version that came out in 1998