Obsessed with a general’s woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism and his unspeakable desires. With the help of a large oyster shell, he pours a black liquid into a bottle which he then breaks….
One of the first surrealist films, Germaine Dulac’s avant-garde masterwork evokes the dream world of a celibate curate with ravishing visual flair. Await special-effects galore: from split screens to contorted images, the work shimmers with imagination, and was based on an Antonin Artaud screenplay!
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Walter Ruttmann, 1927, Germany
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1974, France
Stephen Quay,Timothy Quay, 1993, United Kingdom
Walerian Borowczyk, 1966, France
Justine Triet, 2012, France
Jonas Mekas, 1999, United States
Antonio Mendez Esparza, 2009, Spain
Bertrand Mandico, 2013, France
Sergei Eisenstein,Grigori Aleksandrov, 1929, Soviet Union
Pere Portabella, 2003, Spain
