“Ravishingly beautiful, a shock to the system, and an absolutely lucid picture about the danger of making art.” – Martin Scorsese
The bodies pile up as sensitive film studio focus puller Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) moonlights as a private photographer of scantily-clad women, while obsessively working on his own “documentary” of the women’s dying expressions. Director Michael Powell’s career was effectively destroyed by the critical backlash to the film. (Rialto Pictures)
