Anatomy of Melancholy
In praise of the films of Jean Rollin
A version of the following piece on the films of Jean Rollin originally ran in the June, 2018 issue of Sight & Sound magazine, and is reprinted with the gracious permission of my editor, James Bell, who has for years allowed me to lower the tone at the BFI’s house organ. The pretext for the piece was the release of the Samm Deighan-edited volume Lost Gi…