Isn't it from 1947? It's always been that saturated and weird/lurid/fever fantasy, from new?
It has! Always. It made audiences gasp. I dream of someday seeing a Technicolor print.
Were they TRYING for exotica erotica? Like, was that on the label the whole time and I'm bad at watching films?
Powell has called it the most erotic movie he and Pressburger ever made. He's probably right. There's a level on which I am always surprised the source novel was by Rumer Godden, because anachronism notwithstanding, it really looks like they just filmed Tanith Lee.
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It has! Always. It made audiences gasp. I dream of someday seeing a Technicolor print.
Were they TRYING for exotica erotica? Like, was that on the label the whole time and I'm bad at watching films?
Powell has called it the most erotic movie he and Pressburger ever made. He's probably right. There's a level on which I am always surprised the source novel was by Rumer Godden, because anachronism notwithstanding, it really looks like they just filmed Tanith Lee.