This 35mm screening is part of 'The Unholy Women' season curated by The Final Girld. You can find full details of the season here.
Time Out review:
A foray into the incestuous lives of two sisters, Karen Arthur's second feature is a slow, visually beautiful tale of sexuality and madness, with a haunting score by Roger Kellaway. Cissy (Carol Kane, excellent) is creative and crazy. She's in love with her dead father and her doting older sister Ellen (Lee Grant), and has turned their living-room into a claustrophobic jungle (they were brought up in Africa). At one end is 'The Mafu Cage', a home for primates - and a coffin if they go too far. For neither man nor ape (there's a lovely orang-utan involved) may touch her, Ellen, or their father's collection of phallic African treasures without violent consequences... the hot-house aura is enticing, and although the narrative comes close to exploitation, there's a surprisingly loving depth to the characters.
Helen MacKintosh
Here (and above) is an unofficial trailer.
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