If you (presuming you are a heterosexual male, or a lesbian) had Anouk Aimee as a girlfriend, wouldn’t you be on your best behavior, so as to get the hell out of the insane asylum? Alas, since you ask, it was not, as it happens, so simple then, then being 1959, the year the great Georges Franju made his haunting debut feature La Tete contre les murs, the subject of today’s Foreign Region DVD Report, at The Auteurs’. Also there today: my consideration of a NYFF selection, To Die Like A Man. Enjoy.
I’ve been wanting to see this film for a while. I love all the Franju movies I’ve seen so far – EYES WITHOUT A FACE, JUDEX and BLOOD OF THE BEASTS.
I had the lucky chance to see this at Anthology when they did their big Franju shebang a little while ago. It is probably my favorite of his features, and I really do love his others. When will the rising-up of the Franju cult begin?