Il discepolo

A chilly, cerebral plunge into a recluse's orderly mind colliding with a young man's cold self-analysis and a death he set in motion.

Directed by

Giuseppe Giusti

Genres

Horror

Starring

Fabienne Fabrèges, Mario Roncoroni, Mary Cleo Tarlarini

Overview

Adrien Sixte is a reclusive intellectual known for his theories on psychological materialism. Sixte’s orderly, self-enclosed world is violently interrupted when a desperate mother petitions his help and a judge summons him to a criminal trial. The young defendant, Robert Greslou—a student and self-styled disciple of Sixte—has sent his master a confidential memoir written in jail. Greslou’s psychological self analysis traces the nexus of causes that propelled him to his current predicament. The memoir culminates with his experience as a tutor for an aristocratic family: when he experiments with the affection he inspires in a young girl, the disciple’s actions eventually leading to her death.

How it feels

Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Guilt, obsession, class, death

Content

Mild violence and sexual content. No gore or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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