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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping that gradually drifts towards uncharted territory, gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent. Defying literal-minded interpretation, Duet for Cannibals is both an illustrative companion to Sontag’s criticism, and introduction of a startlingly original filmmaker
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Adriana Asti, Agneta Ekmanner, Brita Brunius, Gösta Ekman, Lars Ekborg
Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1969
Mode of access: World Wide Web
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