English title: The Fortune Teller.
A woman is looking for the perfect man. She ascends a flight of stairs and meets a fortune teller. The figure of a man wearing a bathing suit appears. The film is full of symbolism that uses alchemical motifs -- so we are told -- and can be understood as a work of pure visual art, working through beautiful association of geometrical patterns or fusions. The only thing that nearly spoils the film is the asymmetry between the nakedness of the masculine figure and the abundance of garment on the feminine one. Was it one-sided prudishness or what? I had never heard of this filmmaker and, looking at his filmography, I don't see any familiar titles. Judging by this film, he was a talented artist.
(I saw this film on November 24, 2006, as part of the DVD Unseen Cinema: The Mechanized Eye.)
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