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Voidsville Follies

Works by Helena Makowska (1)

Il Fauno

Febo Mari (director/lead/writer)
Nietta Mordeglia (lead)
Helena Makowska (lead)
Vasco Creti (lead)
Oreste Bilancia (lead)
Società Anonima Ambrosio (production)

Language: Silent, Italian titles, English subtitles, released in Jun 1917
Minutes: 72

Good news:

All performers succeeded in their visual storytelling
Sparks fly whenever the two competing nymphs share the screen
Il Fauno's bod is worthy of the attention the camera gives it, despite being dickless

But otherwise, all the striving to make an obscure point went over this head that is shamelessly ignorant of mythology and symbolist poetry, and it could only endlessly repeat: “A horse is a horse, of course of course, and no one can talk to a horse of course...”...

Featured elements:

: abstraction; boozy-woozy; breaking class; fantasy; gambling; heroic defender; infidelity; metatheatre; patriarchy; romance; servitude; sexuality

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