Alison MacLean’s highly acclaimed first film, shot in stark black-and-white, is a wordless experimental horror/romance short about a women who gets much more than she bargains for when she dislodges a rope of hair from the bowels of her kitchen sink. A darkly humorous, tender and disturbing love story about abject female desire that evokes elements of the Frankenstein story. The film competed at Cannes in 1989 and won eight international awards.
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ACMI Identifier
315706
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Film festivals - France - Cannes - Awards
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)