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"Two years before Vertigo, this fascinating, archly Gothic Argentine drama mined near-identical themes of erotic obsession and necrophilic desire via the story of a wealthy man (director Hugo del Carril) who, shattered by the death of his wife (Laura Hidalgo), retreats to Paris where he meets her exact look-alike in the form of a prostitute (Hidalgo, again) and proceeds to make her over in the dead woman’s image. Based on the classic Symbolist novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach and directed by tango-singer-turned-actor-turned-filmmaker del Carril in heaving, Sturm und Drang style, Beyond Oblivion has been heralded as nothing less than “the greatest Argentine film” by the country’s legendary critic Ángel Faretta." - Film at Lincoln Center

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