Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.
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Carmelo Bene Director · Joris-Karl Huysmans Author Mauro Contini Editor
First release May 1, 1973 · Produced in Italy · Production RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana
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France · May 1, 1973
Cannes Film Festival
Italy · May 1, 1973
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