ONCE UPON A TIME
LAWRENCE JORDAN • 12m
In many ways a more searching (and certainly a more complex) film than OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE. We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the soundtrack. Gradually a female guide emerges and escorts the young man into an antechamber to another (and possibly higher) world.
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"A beauty... a genuinely mystical exercise." - Howard Thompson, New York Times
