Japanese avant-garde filmmaker Shūji Terayama is known for his visually striking and highly provocative works, from which Fruits of Passion is one of the most controversial. Presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in 1981, this is a sexually abrasive and disturbingly powerful tale.

The dignity of silence is cold comfort in Sergio Corbucci’s unsentimental, snow-pelted revenge saga, starring a chilling Klaus Kinski. Thick furs and the deep swells of Ennio Morricone’s gorgeous score are sources of warmth, but no defence against heavy gunfire in this pitiless revisionist western.