Directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
Terence Stamp, Jane Fonda, Alain Delon
"You shouldn't have killed me. Without me you no longer exist. Dead to the world. Dead to hope."
On the night before Halloween, CinemaLit offers a bravura tribute to Edgar Allen Poe. Spirits of the Dead is an omnibus film using the talents of some of the twentieth century’s greatest European filmmakers to loosely adapt three of Poe’s stories. In “Metzengerstein,” (directed by Roger Vadim) Jane Fonda plays the depraved Countess Frederique, a woman haunted by a black horse which reminds her of the one crime she regrets. “William Wilson,” directed by Louis Malle, is about a man (Alain Delon) pursued by his own, conscience-stricken doppelganger, and in the dreamlike “Toby Dammit” (Terence Stamp) a modern celebrity confronts the emptiness of his life, in which the devil takes on an unnervingly innocent guise.
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