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Visions of Ecstasy
- Director: Nigel Wingrove
- Writer: Nigel Wingrove
- Producer: Peter Salvage; John Stephenson
CGiii Comment
Banned for 20 years...on the grounds of blasphemy. Not because it's garbage...
This film would have been ignored and forgotten about if it hadn't been banned...it's masturbatory nonsense for teenage boys with a nun fixation.
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The(ir) Blurb...
"Visions of Ecstasy" once had the distinction of being the only production refused by the British Board of Film Classification for blasphemy. The film depicts St. Theresa engaged sexually with both another woman and Jesus Christ on the cross, and while never threatening to be anything more than just visions of ecstasy, the film's religious invocations were enough to have it banned until blasphemy laws were repealed in 2008. The experimental nature of Visions of Ecstasy has the advantage of diminishing the contextual implications of building a strong link between sexual and religious ecstasy while also permitting audiences to draw their own interpretations.
Cast & Characters
Louise Downie as St. Teresa of Avila;
Elisha Scott as psyche of St. Teresa;
Dan Fox as Christ