Well, I thought spoiler-filled movie trailers were a recent scourge, but apparently they've been around a few decades.
Kerr is sent to the Himalayas - possibly India,, as Calcutta seems to be the nearest postal site - to oversee a convent. There's inappropriate sexual tension between several of the nuns, including Kerr, and the local British handyman/translator. Somebody goes psycho, as you might guess from the above.
There are plenty of places you could take offense at this film. In fact it seems never to have met a cultural or gender stereotype it didn't like. But you'd be missing the point. This movie is batshit insane! Just giving into the sensual experience is the best way to appreciate it. It's a massive head trip.
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never've managed to catch this one (tho we did not-so-long ago rewatch sabu in 'thief of bagdad', which maybe sorta counts?). it's a movie that, according to the wiki, seems to've had a lot of influence on a few people (scorsese in particular), tho i have to admit that, having watched the trailer, that's likely enough 'young nuns in the himalayas' for me for the next little while, anyway, tho i have little doubt it's every bit as entertaining/nuts as you claim it is. maybe we could also bring in jonathan demme for a remake? :) ...
&, on a final 'brexit' note, here's a few minutes with mark blyth, of brown university. i'm not so sure that, at the core of this, the issue is truly any more complicated than this: is there, or is there no longer, a place for democracy, & traditional elected leadership, in the modern scheme of things?...
I can see Scorsese being deeply imprinted by the movie. Heard somewhere that he wanted to be a priest as a child. From what I've read the nuns in the film are actually Anglo-Catholic, which would make them technically Protestant, but that's not an object.
Man, Caged Heat. It must be strange for Demme to go back and see his work as such a young director. Not that I think he's ashamed, or would have any reason to be. But he, like Scorsese and Francis Coppola, grew up in public as Corman factory directors.
Interesting spiel on the euro. Of course the effects of blowing it up are still unknown. Some of the countries of Europe - lookin' at you, Italy - had bad experiences with their own individual currency. They'd be nervous, I imagine.
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