Wheel of Ashes (1968)

Name: Wheel of Ashes
Director: Peter Emanuel Goldman
Released: 1968-08-01
Rating: 8
Cast: Pierre Clémenti, Katinka Bo, Pierre Basançon, Juliet Berto, Stasia Gelber

Drama

95 min

Plot Summary

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.