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Ventriloquio (1970)

Ventriloquio poster
Directed by
Carmelo Bene
Genre
drama
Country
Italy
Runtime
17 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a man who retreats into a world of his own making. He is haunted by memories and finds comfort in obsessive routines. It is based on a chapter from a novel about a decadent aristocrat.

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What happens

Ventriloquio est un court métrage dramatique italien réalisé par Carmelo Bene et sorti en 1973. Le film, interprété par Bene lui-même avec la participation de sa compagne Lydia Mancinelli, basé sur le neuvième chapitre d'À rebours de Joris-Karl Huysmans, a été tourné en 1970, monté en 1972 et présenté l'année suivante à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs du Festival de Cannes 1973. À date de 2005, l'ouvrage Carmelo Bene de Cosetta G. Saba indique que le film est perdu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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