Gothic film in a monastery, where sensual monks murder the children they receive, with images of fantastic, painted from the author own painting and also from the Hammer films and the Saxon plastic tradition of romanticism.
Cinematography
Frame compositions ripped straight from the director's own paintings.
Production
Hammer horror meets Portuguese romanticism in suffocating atmosphere.
Director
Luís Noronha da Costa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Portugal's explosive Cinema Novo movement, though rarely screened outside archival circles. The director painted every frame composition before shooting.
Rita Azevedo Gomes, credited here as actress, became one of Portugal's most acclaimed avant-garde directors — her own films echo this one's painterly obsession.
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