Wheel of Ashes

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.

Director: Peter Emanuel Goldman

Cast: Pierre Clémenti, Katinka Bo, Pierre Basançon, Juliet Berto, Stasia Gelber, Judith Malina, Ted Joans, David Cortez Medalla

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.