Swan Lake -- the Zone

Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Andrew Mccarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow.

REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Fri., Nov. 1, 1991

This 1990 Cannes Film Festival Critics' Prize winner was a joint Russian/Canadian/Swedish production and is based on autobiographical stories by legendary director Sergei Paradjanov.

A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or whatever you can afford, to help keep our journalism on stands.

Support the Chronicle

More John Frankenheimer Films

The Manchurian Candidate

Decades before U.S. intelligence got hip to the notion of "sleeper agents" in our midst, The Manchurian Candidate successfully tried out the idea in this post-Korean War setting. (Last year it was re-made in a post-gulf war setting.) The result is a chilling story about brainwashing, secret political agendas, power-hungry moms, and psychically ravaged veterans.

Marjorie Baumgarten, June 24, 2002

Reindeer Games

At one point in John Frankenheimer's Reindeer Games, harried casino boss James Banks, played by a frothing Dennis Farina, complains to a pair of Native ...

Marc Savlov, March 4, 2000

More by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Review: The Greatest Hits

Love means never having to flip to the B side

March 16, 2024

SXSW Film Review: The Uninvited

A Hollywood garden party unearths certain truths

March 12, 2024

KEYWORDS FOR THIS FILM

Swan Lake -- the Zone, John Frankenheimer, Andrew Mccarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow