Wheel of Ashes (1968)

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.

Released Aug. 1, 1968 95 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.french-new-wave, imdb.nouvelle-vague, imdb.renunciation, imdb.vedanta, imdb.paris-france, imdb.death + 8 more, imdb.apartment, imdb.reincarnation, imdb.materialism, imdb.religion, imdb.christianity, imdb.hinduism, imdb.alienation, imdb.existentialism