A woman walks into a sailor camp and everyone forgets how to breathe.
In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads.
Acting
Alice Field's Greta: minimal dialogue, maximum wreckage.
Cinematography
Cramped camp spaces heighten claustrophobic desire.
Director
Jacques Constant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sylvia Bataille (Marie-Louise) was legendary Surrealist photographer Jacques-André Boiffard's muse and Georges Bataille's wife.
Released June 1940 as France fell to Nazi occupation — its claustrophobic camp setting mirrors a nation trapped.
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