Duet for Cannibals (1969) on Blu-ray

Actor: Adriana Asti, Lars Ekborg, Gosta Ekman, Agneta Ekmanner, Brita Brunius
Director: Susan Sontag
Genre: Metrograph Pictures
Year: 1969
Studio: Metrograph Pictures
Length: 105
Released: 5/26/2020
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Subtitled, Audio commentary by artist and writer Wayne Koestenbaum, Booklet essay by film critic Adam Nayman , Interview with Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag (1969), Trailers
Language: English
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping that gradually drifts towards uncharted territory, gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent. Defying literal-minded interpretation, Duet for Cannibals is both an illustrative companion to Sontag’s criticism and the introduction of a startlingly original filmmaker.