A teacher of mythology at a conservative Christian college, engaged to marry a fellow teacher at the school, is drawn into an unanticipated lesbian relationship with a circus acrobat. When the dust settles, she forsakes the guy for the gal. The light of love thus wins out over homophobic Christianity’s darkness.      Uneventful would be a […]

Cinematographed by 24-year-old Léonce-Henri Burel, whose use of chiaroscuro is gorgeous, Abel Gance’s Mater dolorosa was an even huger hit in the United States, where it was called The Torture of Silence, than in France. Its silly sentimental melodrama could even pass for something American. However, the deliberate mistranslation of subtitles and of the written […]