The Seashell and the Clergyman
DramaFantasysexual obsessionsexual frustrationsurrealismlustavant-gardesilent filmcatholic priestwoman directorfrench impressionismexperimental film
A hallucinatory avant-garde meditation on religious repression and sexual desire, told through dreamlike surrealist imagery that resists narrative coherence.
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
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