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zarre American botanist Dr. Copper evident, both in the palette and in the in more of the cast. The very WesAn-
(Lesley Manville), who lives in isola- use of the stylistic and performative dersonian Schwartzman is unrecog-
tion with her young lover (Argentine resources of Michael Powell and Eme- nisable with an image that sticks to
director Lisandro Alonso), there is a ric Pressburger, as the director stated that of the poet Allen Ginsberg, as is
catadupa of visceral scenes, between in an interview with cinecitanews.it the transformation of the very con-
gore and slime and grime, in line with in June 2024. At the same time, Gua- trite and aristocratic Manville into a
what the director had already shown dagnino warned future viewers about safari version of the performance ar-
us in his remake of “Suspiria” (2018). the “many sex scenes, which are quite tist Michèle Lamy, wife of the famous
In a stunning epilogue, much more scandalous”. fashion designer Rick Owens. It is also
dreamlike and poetic, we follow the curious to note that, although much
progression of Lee's hallucinations, These scenes of homosexual sex must has been demanded of Craig and
where we have a beautiful image have been quite demanding for Da- Starkey in terms of eroticism and ex-
of a coral snake eating its tail, in the niel Craig, an actor not given to erotic posure, frontal nudity (albeit with the
shape of an inverted eight: a perfect scenes or nudity and who had cemen- use of penile prostheses) is left only
ouroboros, symbol of eternal return, ted his image with his portrayal of to a minor actor. Much of the film
death, and rebirth. And it is in these the epitome of the heterosexual man, was shot at the prestigious Cine Cità
moments that the aesthetic influen- Agent 007. This requirement to take studios, with sets (both life-size and
ce of “The Red Shoes” (1948) is most an actor into other fields is present miniature) designed by Stefano Bai-