The Man Without Desire (1923)
- Directed by
- Adrian Brunel
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film, silent film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man loses his ability to feel desire. The film follows his detached journey through life as he tries to understand what is missing.
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What happens
The Man Without Desire is a 1923 British silent film fantasy drama, directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ivor Novello, who also co-produced the film along with Miles Mander. The film was Brunel's feature-length directorial debut and has been described as "one of the stranger films to emerge from Britain in the 1920s". The film's theme of loss of sexual desire, and by implication impotence, was exceptionally frank for its time; oddly, however, it appears to have been passed for release without interference by the British film censors, who at this time had a reputation for extreme zealousness where sexual matters in film were concerned. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Boden's Boy (1923)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.