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The Severed Heads

1957 · 21 min

A silent, dreamlike curiosity that plays like a mime performed in a fever, charming and unsettling in equal measure.

Genres
Fantasy, Comedy
Overview
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

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    Themes
    • identity
    • obsession
    • death
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
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    Horror3
    Humour4
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    Romance2
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    Complexity7
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    Genres
    fantasy, comedy
    Directed by
    Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ruth Michelly, Saul Gilbert
    Written by
    Alejandro Jodorowsky
    Starring
    Raymond Devos, Denise Brossot, Rolande Polya, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert, Jean-Marie Proslier, Margot Loyola, Michel Orphelin
    Music
    Edgar Bischoff
    Runtime
    21 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    No Language

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