Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz
Другие названия:
The Games Of The Countess Of Dolingen Of Gratz
The Games of Countess Dolingen (USA: festival title)
Режиссер: Catherine Binet
Год: 1980
Страна: Франция
Время: 114 минут
Жанр: Drama
Содержание:
In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people
she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home,
her husband tells her that a certain countess has died.
At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while
the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home,
the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels.
Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney,
steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron,
escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back,
he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far,
the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back.
Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother,
who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man. When she grows up,
she either commits suicide or manages to leave the past behind her.
Is this little girl the same married woman on the train at the beginning of the film?
In the final, dramatic scenes, the viewers see the husband full-face for the first time,
as he confronts his wife.
Спорные сцены
A ten or eleven year old girl was walking around with her bathrobe open, showing everything,
then she slides down a staircase handrail naked. There's also a mention (but not shown)
of the girl utilizing a bike for such sexual gratification experiments,
as well as training her pet dog to lick her. Later she's raped by her 15 year old brother.
Towards the end the girl gets naked again and here we get about two minutes
of her stripping and changing and looking at herself in a mirror, mainly from behind.
She then jumps from a balcony to her death, followed by a narrator's voice telling about how
her dog tries in vain to wake her up by licking her between her legs.
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