Visions of Ecstasy
Banned for over 20 years
A transgressive, surreal meditation on religious ecstasy and desire that blurs the sacred and erotic through the fractured inner world of a 16th-century nun.
The 16th century Carmelite nun St. Teresa, surrounded by candles and crosses, fantasizes about making love to a crucified Christ and her own psyche.
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