Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp)

2022
12m

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Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) (2022)

An aging porno director makes a commentary in 2022 for the DVD of an underground 16mm film he made in 1972 and was recently rediscovered. As the beautiful stud in the film undergoes a series... Read allAn aging porno director makes a commentary in 2022 for the DVD of an underground 16mm film he made in 1972 and was recently rediscovered. As the beautiful stud in the film undergoes a series of erotic reveries, the director laments his doomed love affair with his protagonist.An aging porno director makes a commentary in 2022 for the DVD of an underground 16mm film he made in 1972 and was recently rediscovered. As the beautiful stud in the film undergoes a series of erotic reveries, the director laments his doomed love affair with his protagonist.

Director
- Peter Strickland
Writer
- Peter Strickland
Stars
- Michael Brandon
- Sebastien Kapps

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6.1/10

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Director
- Peter Strickland
Writer
- Peter Strickland
Stars
- Michael Brandon
- Sebastien Kapps

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Michael Brandon

Troy
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Sebastien Kapps

Wade

Director
- Peter Strickland
Writer
- Peter Strickland
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References Pink Narcissus (1971)

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Popcone
Written and Performed by Xylitol
Copyright Catherine Backhouse 2021

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7/10

Passion of the narcissus.

Going to the HOME cinema in Manchester to see a screening of Flux Gourmet (2022-also reviewed) featuring a live Q&A with film maker Peter Strickland,I was happily surprised to learn of a brand new short by Strickland (which he introduced) was to be shown before the main film, which led to me going to the swamp.

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Emerging from the swamp as a lost/ rediscovered 1972 film, writer/ directing auteur Peter Strickland continues to expand on his distinctive ultra-stylization, via closely working with cinematographer Tim Sidell in expertly capturing the texture of early 1970's Adult cinema, with fading primary colours emphasizing the surreal backdrop over fading primary colours.

Giving a tree a rather unique branch,and a close-up on a man having some Gentleman's Time, the screenplay by Strickland impressively turns the erotic, into the melancholy, thanks to a fake audio commentary opening up the laments that the director of the short has, for the passion that was at the swamp.