10 Nunsploitation Films first published by BFI, 13 April 2022 Includes capsules of: The Devils, School of the Holy Beast, Alucarda, Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Behind Convent Walls, Killer Nun, Dark Habits, Nude Nuns With Big Guns, St Agatha, Agnes Where exploitation films occupy the nether regions of cinema’s margins, taking advantage of…
Goto, Island of Love (Goto l’île d’amour) first published by EyeforFilm “Each side sees a different picture.” So says the schoolteacher (Fernand Bercher) in an early scene in Goto, Island Of Love (Goto L’Île D’Amour), as he shows his young pupils the optical trickery that makes a portrait of their current leader, Goto III (Pierre Brasseur),…
Beyond The Hills (După dealuri) first published by Little White Lies Lesbian nuns! Exorcism! A ‘two-way anus’! Knowing in advance that these motifs form part of the texture in Cristian Mungiu’s latest feature might lead the unsuspecting viewer to imagine that the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (2007) has decided to redirect the Romanian New Wave towards pure exploitation,…