<p>A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur’s English-language debut. Armed with a sardonic sense of humor, pure emotionality, a reflective self-sarcastic mood, and obsession with detail, this enigmatic mesmerising melodrama holds in different ways all of cinema – from Tod Browning’s Freaks and David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, to Robert Altman’s The Player and Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio – to give it a radically new substantial twist.</p>
