What a fascinating clip. Bluebeard's ante-chamber looks like it's filled with pieces of Henry Moore sculptures dusted with a little LSD. It's a movie I would definitely like to see. Lucky you for having the opportunity!
I think I see what you mean about the young woman getting drawn ever more deeply into the passionate, claustrophobic intensity of a dangerous man's inner life. My German is pretty bad, but one thing I picked up on at the beginning of the clip, when Judith appears, is how she keeps repeating, "There are no windows here; it's all dark," and he says in essence (I think?) "Who needs windows?" For some reason, it reminded me of the old, discarded Music of the Night verse,
Close your eyes, for your eyes will only tell the truth And the truth isn't what you want to see In the dark it is easy to pretend That the truth is what it ought to be
I think that while marriage is on the whole very different from centuries past, there's still the danger of a journey into someone else's diseased imagination, especially if they are older, more powerful, more manipulative than you. It well may be that the "journey" Judith makes is into the subconscious, or maybe even collective unconscious (which wouldn't surprise me in Powell's interpretation, given that it was made in the early 1960s & psychoanalysis still had a powerful sway then.)
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I think I see what you mean about the young woman getting drawn ever more deeply into the passionate, claustrophobic intensity of a dangerous man's inner life. My German is pretty bad, but one thing I picked up on at the beginning of the clip, when Judith appears, is how she keeps repeating, "There are no windows here; it's all dark," and he says in essence (I think?) "Who needs windows?" For some reason, it reminded me of the old, discarded Music of the Night verse,
Close your eyes, for your eyes will only tell the truth
And the truth isn't what you want to see
In the dark it is easy to pretend
That the truth is what it ought to be
I think that while marriage is on the whole very different from centuries past, there's still the danger of a journey into someone else's diseased imagination, especially if they are older, more powerful, more manipulative than you. It well may be that the "journey" Judith makes is into the subconscious, or maybe even collective unconscious (which wouldn't surprise me in Powell's interpretation, given that it was made in the early 1960s & psychoanalysis still had a powerful sway then.)
Thanks for sharing this; very nice!