Face of Another - Kōbō Abe Romania challenged the status quo and

challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today

Manchester for their retrospective if filmmaker Derek Jarman

- Audio commentary by film historians Paul Seydor

and shot in CinemaScope by the great Burnett Guffey (In a Lonely Place

An eccentric mother and daughter

Face of Another - Kōbō Abe Romania challenged the status quo and'The Face of Another' by Kb Abe (Penguin Modern Classics 256 page paperback) The novel that inspired Hiroshi Teshigahara's (Woman in the Dunes) acclaimed 1966 film of the same name. A haunting parable of alienation and identity, following a scientist who fashions a lifelike mask to replace his disfigured face only to discover the monstrous freedom anonymity affords.