A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.
Peter Emanuel Goldman is an American filmmaker, writer and investigative columnist. He was widely recognized as the connection between the New American (Underground) cinema and the French New Wave during the 1960s. Goldman was a director of independent feature films in New York and Paris and was highly praised by Newsweek, Susan Sontag, Jean-Luc Godard. His first feature, Echoes of Silence, became a landmark of the American Underground. This film, and a film shot in Paris, Wheel of Ashes, played to critical acclaim at leading festivals including the New York, Venice Cannes, London and Pesaro film festivals.
