The Snake God
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
Sombre, measured, measured erotic / exotic, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A beautiful Italian woman is told by her black friend about the Carribean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Cassini has decided to give herself to Jambaya while Cunningham departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.
Our read · The Snake God (1970) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive erotic · exotic · cult entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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“You seek 1970s Italian erotic cult films with voodoo rituals and exotic awakening.”
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The reading.
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