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Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It

198620mElizabeth LeCompte

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Drawing from Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony, his letters, travel journals, and biography, this video layers fantasy, sexual obsession, morbidity, Romanticism, and boredom alongside the ghostliness of empty hotel rooms, aural atmosphere, and an homage to surrealist and horror films.

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What is Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It (1986) about?

Drawing from Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony, his letters, travel journals, and biography, this video layers fantasy, sexual obsession, morbidity, Romanticism, and boredom alongside the ghostliness of empty hotel rooms, aural atmosphere, and an homage to surrealist and horror films.

How long is Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It?

Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It has a runtime of 20 min and premiered in 1986.

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