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This film was cited by most critics as the primary influence on David Mackenzie’s erotic film Young Adam. This film’s director included a set of cats in it as an homage to his birth in an attic and his murdered father, an anarchist who used a pen name anagrammatic to the phrase “there’s shit.” An alcoholic in this film who keeps a jar of his dead friend’s pickled hands was the inspiration for Ludwig’s tattoos in The Grand Budapest Hotel. Boris Kaufman shot this film’s erotic montage of close-ups on the two leads’ faces in different beds, as they rub their bodies in longing. That scene from this film is followed by a shot of the female lead in a (*) wedding dress superimposed over a shot of the male lead swimming. This film, whose director died at age 29 from tuberculosis just months after its release, opens with the shaggy Père Jules (“pair zhool”) welcoming his captain’s bride. For 10 points, a barge named for a Greek heroine titles what 1934 romance directed by Jean Vigo? (10[3])■END■

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