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This film has been more talked about than seen since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972, when it was shown in a hastily shortened English-language version which distributors subsequently hacked down even further. Now the Belgium Cinémathèque Royale have worked with Kümel (best known for the lesbian vampire classic Daughters of Darkness) to produce a definitive ‘director’s cut’, Dutch-language version that runs for almost two hours – longer than has ever been seen before, and giving its labyrinthine story far greater clarity and depth.Read More »
Susan Hampshire
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Harry Kümel – Malpertuis (1973)
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Jan Troell – Bang! (1977)
Jan Troell1971-1980DramaSwedenMagnus is divorced and has an affair with an art teacher at the school where he works. When he thinks she’s pregnant, he is worried because he is in love with another woman.Read More »
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Pierre Granier-Deferre – Paris au mois d’août AKA Paris In The Month Of August (1966)
1961-1970ComedyFrancePierre Granier-DeferreRomanceHenri is alone in Paris during the month of August while his wife and children go on vacation. By chance he meets Pat, a beautiful young English woman who’s come to Paris for a photoshoot but who has nobody to show her the town.Read More »