The Auteur's Selection Complementing the Tone of La falena: Cult Guide

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Lyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this ungrateful job leads her to have an unwanted pregnancy, and once born the child abandons her.

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An historical epic on the life and myths surrounding Maria Magdalene.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Redenzione perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her. But, having become rich and famous, he soon falls in love with the Princess of Chaban and abandons the woman to whom he owes his success.

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A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Naked Truth perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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A young woman living in a castle reads letters written by her ancestor and comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once live there.

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A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La cavalcata ardente perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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Grazia de Plessans abandons her studies in a convent following a mystical crisis. In her paternal house, she studies music together with maestro Claudio Morillot with whom she ends up falling in love.

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Epic, melodramatic and rather risque adaptation of the British novel about ancient Roman decadence, culminates in the eruption of a nearby volcano.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Malombra perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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Alexandra swore to avenge her father's murder- and in a moment of frenzy, plunged a dagger into the heart of the man she believed guilty But he was innocent-and the law descended to force Alexandra to pay the full price for her crime.

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A young duchess who, after her husband's death, marries a young military captain, but keeps the marriage a secret in order that she may continue to enjoy the property which she conditionally inherits. When the captain is ordered to the front the Duchess vainly tries to hold him back. She writes him that she is going to become a mother and asks his advice He urges her to proclaim the fact of their marriage. Both are aware that this confession means tho loss of the inheritance, and Helen cannot face love in a cottage. She determines to evade the role of motherhood, and when her husband returns and asks for the child she tells him that her letter was merely a ruse to get him back. For a time the captain believes her. But a blackmailing nihilistic doctor Bets a thought germinating in the brain of a dwarf who has been dismissed by the Duchess, and through his instrumentality, the conscience-stricken woman is literally blown by a bomb into eternity. A subsidiary plot centres about the statue of Nemesis which is unearthed in the grounds of an old monastery after being buried, some hundreds of years.