Saturday, March 24, 2012

Le Seuil du Vide










Bonkers post-new wave surrealist fairy tale out of France in 1974, directed by Jean Francois Davy. Wanda, a painter, rents a triangular Parisian apartment from a creepy old lady on the condition that she never open a certain mysterious locked door. A nice reworking of the old Bluebeard plot -- soon enough the door opens to reveal an acid-tinged theater of illusions, a kind of goth, baroque salon if you can imagine. Some nice color-filtered psychedelic scenes worthy of Shuji Terayama or Pierre Clementi. Highly recommended!

6 comments:

  1. The soundtrack was composed by Jack Arel and Pierre Dutour; actually, it's taken from the Chappell Dance and Mood Music Vol. 13.

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  2. Ah thanks, I wonder if they did the electronics too?

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  3. Triangular buildings again. Wanna watch.

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  4. hoooo...Thank you for this! I really want to see this film!!!

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  5. hi sabrina -- yeah it's cool, i think you'd like it. i downloaded it here:
    http://www.filestube.com/eb0b0c17c7068fe403ea,g/Jean-Francois-Davy-Le-Seuil-du-Vide-1971-SMz-001.html

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