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Bookmark this pageBehind Convent Walls (1977)
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
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From Time Out Film Guide
Borowczyk has fetishised prostitution (The Streetwalker) and bestiality (The Beast), so turning out this pastiche of sex-movie staple (the convent as a sexual greenhouse) can't have been too challenging. The film's pace is too slow, and interest in detail overwhelms the narrative. But this waywardness allows some unusual inflexions: masturbation as a real centre of interest, Christ as a laughable sex-martyr. Ultimately the convent-as-haven is exploded: patriarchy intrudes to deliver punishment, and the tale ends (?) with the murder of the abbess and multiple suicide by the nuns.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Producer: Giuseppe Vezzani
Cast: Ligia Branice, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giaccobe, Loredana Martine, Mario Maranzana full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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