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When released in the 1960’s, this film was marketed purely on its eroticism, though by modern standards it may appear tame. What holds the attention is the quiet tragedy of Theo, a man too weak to extricate himself from a life that no longer fits him. He exists mostly in fantasy. He has allowed the real world to fade out, visiting it like a ghost gazing into an abyss. In psychology, one might say that Theo has a fantasy-prone personality, yet this is not always a negative. Ma

This is film is neural disruption at its finest. Visuals and dialogue move so fast the brain doesn’t have enough time to catch the entire meaning, creating a kind of cognitive conflict that you feel. It disorients and intoxicates, bending perception until reality itself seems fluid. It’s string theory unravelled, dimensional boundaries collapsed, identities in constant flux and a man constantly moving through doors to a new experience, unlocking a puzzle that appears infinit

Christine Hornisher’s film set in 1970’s haunts you, not with ghosts, but with characters lost to the world. They carry the weight of dreams they know are probably out of their grasp. The cameraman is a killer addicted underground erotic film. The girl was once pushed into sleazy films to pay the rent: women are killed and women who are used up as sexual objects, in this city women have no voice. Hornisher renders the seedy side of this world with an unflinching eye, she move

Booklet and interviews by Simon Sheridan. Simon did the documentary on British pornographic star Mary Millington; I mentioned the boxset in an earlier post. This film is forty minutes with extras including audio commentary and Interviews with filmmaker Ken Rowles and actress Françoise pascal. Cover by Sean Longmore.

I have always liked Carroll Baker. 88 Films produced this remastered Blu-ray.