Ventriloquio

(1973)

Genres: Drama

Year: 1973

Runtime: 17 мин

Country: Italy

Director: Carmelo Bene

Cast: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli

Plot

Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.