The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1965)

Highly Recommended

Belgium

Feature Film

Original Title: De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen

Director: André Delvaux

Writers: Anna De Pagter, Johan Daisne, André Delvaux

Cinematographers: Ghislain Cloquet, Roland Delcour

Cast: Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck, Hilde Uitterlinden, Annemarie Van Dijk, Hilda Van Roose

A timid school teacher harbours unrequited feelings for a beautiful and talented pupil of his, whom, when she graduates, disappears from his life seemingly forever; but some time later, after years of hollow and empty drifting, she, now a successful singer, wanders back into his life, in Delvaux’s subtle, unsettling, and disquieting examination of obsession, compulsion, and madness. Iain.Stott