Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology

6.5 / 10

(2 votes)

Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally becomes explicit in one of the most bizarre masturbation sequences ever filmed. For almost two hours, we observe a young, strikingly pretty girl, nude most of the time and alone in an apartment, engaged in a sonambulistic and sensuous attempt at coming to terms with herself.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:
Duration:

110 minutes

Year:

1970

Director:

Shûsaku Arakawa

Cast:
Madeline Gins

The Narrator (voice)

Mary Window

Crew:
Shûsaku Arakawa

Director

Toshi Ichiyanagi

Original Music Composer

Shûsaku Arakawa

Writer