La Rose de Fer (1973)

Also Known As: The Iron Rose
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Erotic
Directed by: Jean Rollin
Starring: Francoise Pascal, Hugues Quester, Natalie Perrey, Mireille Dargent, Jean Rollin

Description: The Iron Rose is a haunting experience – a macabre tone poem about youth and age, love and nihilism, nostalgia and superstition, and above all, life and death. Francoise Pascal (There’s a girl in my soup) and Hugues Quester (Three colours: Blue) go on a metaphysical, Orpheus-like journey inside an ancient, all-but-abandoned graveyard but, as night falls, they cannot find their way out. As Quester’s nihilism crumbles to impatience and terror, Pascal transfer her disappointed passion for him to the cemetery itself and becomes jubilantly (and dangerously) attuned to its dead. Pascal gives a remarkably intuitive performance, at times so spontaneous in spirit, one cannot imagine how parts of it were ever scripted.

The cemetery itself is analogous to Rollin’s love for things antiquarian, including the old train station and the nearly moribund city of Amiens. If Orson Welles was correct when he estimated that a film could only be considered good to the extent it represented the artist who made it, The Iron Rose is Jean Rollin’s first authentic masterpiece.

Country: France
Duration: 01:20:34
Language: French, English
Subtitles: English

Quality: BDRip 720p
Format: MKV
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1204x720 23.976fps 5754kbps
Audio: DTS 48000Hz stereo 1536kbps - French
Audio: DTS 48000Hz stereo 1536kbps - English
Size: 4,20 GB