Overstepping genre boundaries: Séance and Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Bryan Forbes’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon (UK, 1964) starts with mystery-filled images of a séance; Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Séance (Korei,…
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