Wheel of Ashes (1968)

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.

Genre: Drama

Director: Peter Emmanuel Goldman

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Katinka Bo, Pierre Besançon

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Runtime: 95

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IMDb: 7.1

Wheel of Ashes (1968)