Duet for Cannibals
New York Film Festival Essentials
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1h 45m
Directed by Susan Sontag • Arthouse • 1969 • Sweden • Swedish with English subtitles
Starring Adriana Asti, Gosta Ekman, Lars Ekborg
Essayist, novelist, critic, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy 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.
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