If you loved La Vie criminelle d'Archibald de La Cruz, try Simon du désert
Un pont entre un film que tu as déjà vu et un que peu de gens ont croisé. Voici ce qu'ils partagent, et ce que le second fait que le premier ne fait pas.
Ce qu'ils partagent
Both films are directed by Luis Buñuel, and they both carry the foreign gem, pitch black, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to La Vie criminelle d'Archibald de La Cruz, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Simon du désert is
A desert ascetic’s spiritual Zoom call with the heavens is interrupted by the devil’s Slack messages. Forty feet up a pillar in 5th-century Syria, Simon waits for a sign neither God nor the tempter seems eager to send. Six takes later, the reels run out.
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