Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Why this pick
Its fairy-tale imagery, uncanny sexuality and fluid nightmare logic closely match Black Moon’s beautiful, disorienting journey through a world with unstable rules.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its fairy-tale imagery, uncanny sexuality and fluid nightmare logic closely match Black Moon’s beautiful, disorienting journey through a world with unstable rules.
Why this pick
A young woman moves through nested fables filled with metamorphosis, menace and sensual surrealism, offering a similarly feminine, storybook-nightmare atmosphere.
Why this pick
Two women turn social order into anarchic play in a formally daring, colour-saturated provocation that shares Black Moon’s anti-rational and gender-charged sensibility.
Why this pick
For Black Moon’s viewers drawn to images over explanation: this is a hypnotic chain of ceremonial tableaux, rich in symbolic detail and dreamlike emotional associations.
Why this pick
Also from 1975, it turns a pastoral landscape into an erotic, unnerving mystery, using elusive symbolism and hushed atmosphere rather than explanatory answers.
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01 / THE STORY
The world is embroiled in a war between men and women, and, to escape it, Lily (Cathryn Harrison) flees to a country estate on which a number of surreal and unusual events take place. Naked children round up pigs and sheep. On the estate are three adults: a man, Brother Lily (Joe Dallesandro), his sister, Sister Lily (Alexandra Stewart), and
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Lily

Brother Lily

Sister Lily