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The Satin Spider

1986 · 82 min

A strange, uneasy watch: a stern period setting curdled by obsession, drug haze and ritual, more unsettling than scary.

Directed by: Jacques Baratier
Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror
Starring: Catherine Jourdan, Alexandra Scicluna, Daniel Mesguich

Overview: The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.

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Directed by: Jacques Baratier
Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror
Starring: Catherine Jourdan, Alexandra Scicluna, Daniel Mesguich

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
power
sexuality
addiction
faith
Places: school
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Action	1
Horror	6
Humour	3
Realism	4
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: crime, drama, horror
Directed by: Jacques Baratier
Written by: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Catherine Jourdan, Alexandra Scicluna, Daniel Mesguich, Roland Topor, Ingrid Caven, Michel Albertini, Fanny Bastien, Jacques Baratier
Music: Gérard Bourdieu, Bruno Gillet
Cinematography: Roger Fellous
Runtime: 82 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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