Dementia (1955)
7/10
Clinical, slightly experimental
10 February 2009
Warning: Spoilers
DAUGHTER … is an old curiosity—conceived as a foray into a crazy woman's mind. The approach is impressionist, i.e. a boosted POV. It is impressing and pertinent. A surrealist exercise, In one of the previous comments here, I spoke about the poems as a cinematographic species of the silent movies.

It predates the Quays; on the other hand, my surrealist dish is more like Fellini and Bunuel.

DAUGHTER OF HORROR pertains to the same species, as an ambitious, averagely daring, ingenious ,overrated yet intriguing try; it predates the Quays, which means, again, surrealism in bolus.

In the epoch, there was some controversy; but IMDb offers already this sort of historical tips, I believe.
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