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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 (10[1])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 (10[1])1934 (10[1])romance directed by Jean Vigo? ■END■

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