Movie

Ventriloquio (1973)

• May 1, 1973
• 17m

• Drama

Overview

Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.

Director

Carmelo Bene

Writers

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Starring

Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli