THE SENSUALIST
F.: Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Simon Nuchtern. M.: Peter Rostov. Int.: Ilona Lys (Karina), Ann Kirton (Sharon), Carolyn Carlton (Louise), Daniel Tomaso (Robert), Michele Roberts (Yvonne). Prod.: Peter Emmanuel Goldman per American Film Distributing Corporation. DCP. D.: 9’. Bn
Film Notes
An erotic meander through the nighttime streets of New York by a foreign young woman questioning her own feelings. “Peter Emanuel Goldman, filmmaker, composer, artist’s model, writer, was born in 1939 in New York, where he studied history, then cinema at Brown University. His lightning spurt of work ran from 1962 to 1968, when he abandoned cinema, only returning to moving images in 1983 to make a video essay … Goldman summed up his brief film decade: ‘For me and my friends back then, the 1960s was a time of despair and despondency. It was all coffees and cafe conversations, folk music, poetry, sexual starvation, irreconcilable conflicts, despair, lack of direction, chaos.’ … In a context in which cinema’s main analgesic function is to teach us to withstand the world, Goldman’s films turned out to be too honest, too sincere, too stark, too precise to be viewed head on” (Nicole Brenez).