The Collector (1965)
Directed by William Wyler
A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.
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What critics compared The Collector to
The Duke of Burgundy, named for a variety of butterfly, synthesizes cultural sources as sundry as the Sapphic playacting of Jean Genet’s The Maids, the psychic conjunction of Bergman’s Persona, and the insect symbolism of Wyler’s The Collector.
Old Nick is kept at arm’s length narratively, as this is not his story; this is not John Fowles’s The Collector.
So Send Help is The Collector meets Hell in the Pacific meets either film titled Castaway…