Wheel of Ashes

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced intertitles. And indeed, while the Pierre Clementi protagonist's inner life remains obscure, the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood that offers his temptations appears in harrowing detail.

• Peter Emanuel GoldmanDirector
• Peter Emanuel GoldmanWriter

• Pierre ClémentiPierre
• Katinka BoAnka
• Pierre BasançonDavid
• Juliet BertoGirl Playing Pinball 1
• Stasia GelberGirl Playing Pinball 2
• Judith MalinaCrazy Woman Preaching
• Ted JoansJazz Poet
• David Cortez MedallaSculptor
• David AllenCast
• Eliane BrangerCast
• Karin BoghCast
• Marika PerroliCast