The Seashell and the Clergyman
Drama
Fantasy
Overview
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Keywords
sexual obsession
sexual frustration
surrealism
lust
avant-garde
silent film
catholic priest
woman director
french impressionism
experimental film
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7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967June 6, 2022
7
7/10
Germaine Dulac has created a monster here... Not in any kaiju sense, but by taking a surreal swipe at just about every element of the masculine-driven, religiously flawed environment of the world in the 1920s. The eponymous priest - Alex Allin harbours none too subtle desires about the mistress of "…
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