A lady suffers ill repute when she leaves her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover some jewelry to pay the hotel bill.Will her husband be understanding and forgive her?.
Henry Bataille
France
Paris, midnight, 1924: a woman’s pearls clatter across the zinc counter like tiny moons falling out of orbit; by sunrise the city has already composed a whole opera of gossip around the sound. Henry Bataille’s Le Scandale—restored last year from a nitrate print so fragile it seemed to sigh under the projector’s lamp—...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Jacques de Baroncelli
Jacques de Baroncelli
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" Paris, midnight, 1924: a woman’s pearls clatter across the zinc counter like tiny moons falling out of orbit; by sunrise the city has already composed a whole opera of gossip around the sound. Henry Bataille’s Le Scandale—restored last year from a nitrate print so fragile it seemed to sigh under the projector’s lamp—treats that single gesture, the handing-over of jewelry to pay for desire, as the epicenter of a moral earthquake. The film is only 71 minutes, yet it secretes enough after-images ..."
