December 2000 Cover
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By
Giacomo Tramontagna
Midsummer Night's Dream
Rating: 2 Stars
Produced by Ginetto di Masolo. Written, photographed, edited, and directed by Steve Cadro. Starring Tibor Dobo, Gabor Vad, Stanislas, Akos, Mosoly Peti, Andreas von Stahl, Laci Somogy, Tom of Hunland, and Flame.
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This is one of at least ten Steve Cadro videos, some of which may still been in post-production at the time of the Hungarian director's tragic death last March, to have been posthumously released. A hard-core all-male version of
A Midsummer Night's Dream by the gifted Cadro sounds like compulsory viewing, but this project's potential was left unrealized. Its story line vaguely follows Shakespeare's play, but its execution is tacky and flat. There's a significant "Huh?" factor.
The scrambling of two pairs of lovers occurs before we're told that the four young men involved add up to two couples. Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Theseus, King of Athens, wear robes that look like king-sized bed sheets; everyone else
wears some sort of flouncy hospital gown. There are moments of lyricism and mischief, but much of the sex is zombified. There's no dialogue, no audible evidence of sexual heat. Except for occasional awkwardly subtitled voice-overs, there's almost nothing on the
soundtrack but wall-to-wall Mendelssohn. The most redemptive feature of this clinker is the cast. Standouts include Andreas von Stahl, the absurdly named Tom of Hunland, and, as Puck, the bunny-cute, suitably puckish Mosoly Peti.
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