The Virgin's Bed

The Virgin's Bed

1969 · 114 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...

Directed by Philippe Garrel · Written by Philippe Garrel

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