'Forbidden Dance': A film treatment by Tonino Guerra. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hough-Dugdale, Amy
• Is Part Of: Journal of Italian cinema & media studies. Volume 11:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 99
• Page End: 110
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: uncompleted film treatment -- drought -- rural village -- convent -- faith vs. female desire -- tarantella -- sexual submission -- rain; Motion pictures -- Italy -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Italy -- Periodicals; 791.430945
• DOI: 10.1386/jicms_00159_7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2047-7368

Abstract

Amidst a suffocating drought, a young, cloistered nun, Angela, experiences desires that draw her out of her convent to adventures, including a tarantella and collective sexual experience of dubious consent, that unsettle her and seem to reorient her relationship to Christ, direct her attention to the Madonna and ask the latter to end the drought in a prayer that is apparently answered.