Garden of Delights (film)

Garden of Delights (Italian: Il giardino delle delizie) is a 1967 Italian drama film written and directed by Silvano Agosti, at his directorial debut.

Garden of Delights
Directed by	Silvano Agosti
Written by	Silvano Agosti
Produced by	Enzo Doria
Starring	Maurice Ronet Evelyn Stewart Lea Massari
Cinematography	Aldo Scavarda
Edited by	Silvano Agosti
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Release date	1967 (1967)
Language	Italian

Plot

Cast

• Maurice Ronet as Carlo
• Evelyn Stewart as Carla
• Lea Massari as the Woman in the Hotel
• Ruggero Miti

Production

The film was heavily cut from censorship and producers, with the final result being very different from the original.^[1][2] Following this experience, Agosti decided to self-produce all his following films.^[2]

Reception

The film has been described as "a loose string of quasi-autonomous images" in which "this emphasis on disjointed imagery becomes both a self-conscious alternative to classical storytelling and a thematisation of an existentialist experience of the palpable yet mysterious presence of both living and inanimate things".^[3]

According to Italian film critic Paolo Mereghetti the film is "a classic depiction of alienation", with Antonioni's and Fellini's influences, as well as "a grotesque, violent, and blasphemous flavor that echoes Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket".^[1]