Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Morag is mourning the death of her brother, responsibility for which she attributes to the power-mad Giulia, leader of an isolated band of pirates who occupy a remote island castle. Morag vows revenge, enlisting the assistance of Erika, who operates as a piratic double agent.
Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has described this film from French New Waver Jacques Rivette as a fusion of female pirate adventure, mythological fantasy, Jacobean tragedy, experimental dance film, and personal psychodrama! This wildly risky film somehow seems unimaginable today.
Morag is mourning the death of her brother, responsibility for which she attributes to the power-mad Giulia, leader of an isolated band of pirates who occupy a remote island castle. Morag vows revenge, enlisting the assistance of Erika, who operates as a piratic double agent.
