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The Assignation
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The Assignation

1953-06-15 · 8 min · ★ 5.7

Drama

A figure cloaked in black and wearing a white mask wanders Venice, carrying a single rose. The entity boards a gondola to make much of its journey via the canals of the city. Its ultimate meeting and presentation of the rose will be a declaration of love of one kind in the meeting actually symbolizing death.

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Curtis Harrington
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