Duet for Cannibals (Blu-ray)
New Restoration
Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping that gradually drifts towards uncharted territory, gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent. Defying literal-minded interpretation, Duet for Cannibals is both an illustrative companion to Sontag’s criticism, and introduction of a startlingly original filmmaker.
A Metrograph Pictures Release
Audio commentary by artist and writer Wayne Koestenbaum | Booklet essay by film critic Adam Nayman | Interview with Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag (1969) | Trailers
- Susan Sontag - Director
- Adriana Asti - Actor
- Gosta Ekman - Actor
- Lars Ekborg - Actor
- Agneta Ekmanner - Actor
- Brita Brunius - Actor
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