My rating: 3 stars out of 4
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Dreamlike story of a woman searching for her past identity on an idyllic Mediterranean island in the Middle East. Florinda Bolkan is a translator in Italy who wakes up one day only to find out she has somehow forgotten the past three. She flies to Garma, a fictional island off the Turkish coast. The people there seem to remember her, including a little girl on the beach and a mysterious carpenter. People, places and objects gradually rekindle her memory. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention her recurring dreams of an astronaut abandoned on the moon, watched over by mad scientist Klaus Kinski. The ending implies that she has been carried off to the insane asylum and the whole thing was just mad paranoia. I'm not sure the film would have been better just leaving out the whole sci-fi angle. Nonetheless, it's intriguing, haunting and superbly photographed by Vittorio Storaro, who worked with Bertolucci on The Conformist and The Spider's Stratagem.
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