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Synopsis

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Year1968
CountrySweden
Cinematic DNA
It’s a ghost story but it’s more about the living than the dead. For me, the influences are The Innocents, The Haunting, The Uninvited, The Turn of the Screw, Hour of the Wolf, The Spirit of the Beehive.
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mental breakdown · repressed desire · artistic crisis · marital strain · isolation and solitude

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