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Garden of Delights (film)

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Garden of Delights (Italian: Il giardino delle delizie) is a 1967 Italian drama film written and directed by Silvano Agosti, at his directorial debut.

Directed bySilvano Agosti
Written bySilvano Agosti
Produced byEnzo Doria
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Garden of Delights
Directed bySilvano Agosti
Written bySilvano Agosti
Produced byEnzo Doria
StarringMaurice Ronet
Evelyn Stewart
Lea Massari
CinematographyAldo Scavarda
Edited bySilvano Agosti
Music byEnnio Morricone
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
LanguageItalian
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The film was heavily cut from censorship and producers, with the final result being very different from the original.[1][2] Following this experience, Agosti decided to self-produce all his following films.[2]

Reception

The film has been described as "a loose string of quasi-autonomous images" in which "this emphasis on disjointed imagery becomes both a self-conscious alternative to classical storytelling and a thematisation of an existentialist experience of the palpable yet mysterious presence of both living and inanimate things".[3]

According to Italian film critic Paolo Mereghetti the film is "a classic depiction of alienation", with Antonioni's and Fellini's influences, as well as "a grotesque, violent, and blasphemous flavor that echoes Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket".[1]

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