Stendhal said beauty is the promise of happiness, Rilke said it’s the beginning of terror, Bataille said seduction and horror are neighbors, extreme seduction being at the boundary of terror. I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Mary Wild, aka the Freudian cinephile, for her Patreon channel, about two art-centric films by Dario Argento, episode rel…
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