Szamanka

An anthropology professor obsessed with shamans begins an affair with the girl renting his brother's flat, and things end badly.

This is a fairly standard destructive-love film, with a nod to Last Tango in Paris in the beginning. Of note is the girl, known only as the Italian, who is driven purely by primal urges and adds an intensity to the film that is usually lacking. Her reaction to the anthropologist ignoring her in favor of a mummified shaman dug up in an industrial lot serves at the turning point from obsession to destruction.

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Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [**____]
Retch : [***__]
Gape : [**___]

Beerequisite : [***__]
Pornability : [*****]
Obscurity : [***__]
Explicability : [**___]

Scene I'd watch on endless loop: The teacher and his students smoking up and dancing around the mummy, chanting and pouring yellow dye on it.