The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she ends up selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting.
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Anthropophagy at its choicest. (That is if women counted as humans at the time). Every Tulio film arrives at a crossroads moment that you know is so bad & ugly & embarrassing & choking & exitless as only he could make, that I need a substantial pause before kayaking down the cataract or covering my face with the t-shirt. Gallagher famously said that Dreyer's Gertrud was as intense as a soccer match. Don't know about
"Death is the sanction of all that the storyteller can narrate. To death he get his authority. In other words, his stories resend us the story of nature." (Walter Benjamin)