
Adapting her play "A New Communion for Freaks, Prophets and Witches", playwright/actress Jane Arden assembles her all-female Holocaust theatre troupe for a violent descent into the mind of a young woman labelled schizophrenic. Composed of different episodes brimming with psychoanalytic symbols and raw, shocking, heartbreaking footage, each segment becomes the metaphorical backdrop for the creator's reflections on self-exploration, repressed guilt, sexual deprivation, freedom ... (Full plot summary below)
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Adapting her play "A New Communion for Freaks, Prophets and Witches", playwright/actress Jane Arden assembles her all-female Holocaust theatre troupe for a violent descent into the mind of a young woman labelled schizophrenic. Composed of different episodes brimming with psychoanalytic symbols and raw, shocking, heartbreaking footage, each segment becomes the metaphorical backdrop for the creator's reflections on self-exploration, repressed guilt, sexual deprivation, freedom of expression, emotional breakdown and the "other side" underneath.
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| User ReviewMArk BA discordant double bass wails while a woman in a crumbling room overlooking an industrial estate sits up in bed with a sheep, being terrorized by another woman in a skullcap and huge paper mache nose who keeps asking in a creepy witch-voice "Do you want a magic hat or not." One of the subtler, less unsettling scenes in Jane Arden's screamingly insane meditation on the female psyce and what have you. This is one of those films which I love for being made a bit more than I love watching, like Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain or Eraserhead. But I do LOVE that it was made, here in Britain, and that someone somewhere paid for it, in more ways than one. |