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Doctor Hannibal Lecter escapes from incarceration and travels to Florence. There he takes a position as curator for the Palazzo Vecchio. He is soon sighted by a policeman who plans to turn him over to a former victim, Mason Verger, who seeks the ultimate revenge... Once again Clarice Starling finds herself on the trail of one of the FBI's most wanted. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris.
...Handsomely staged....[The] presentation is mournfully beautiful; rarely has a director used so many variations on midnight blue...
...Tantalizing, engrossing....HANNIBAL imparts its own pleasures by painting a portrait of a man of ultimate civilized refinements whose dark side always threatens to lurch out violently...
...Gruesomely engrossing....Lecter remains a riveting figure of fear...