Erotikon
- warm
- brisk
- intimate
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.
Our read · Erotikon (1920) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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