Pretentious Pictures Presents:

Faust: the movie
Woody Allen’s audience—older, educated, sophisticated—has been abandoned. 
They need us.
In the tiny Balkan country of Panurgia, wedged between Italy and Slovenia—

(See it? You really have to zoom.)

—German hacker Heinrich Faust, under contract to the Kremlin, has removed Pentagon files and is waiting in a bar he won in a card game for his money to be delivered digitally. 
In the same game he lost his soul to Mephistopheles—and won it back again, and now the two are dueling over who exists and who doesn't.
Sister St. Helen, vivacious, callow, naïve, a Candide of a girl, believes anything. The other sisters are so in love with her that they think she's an instrument of the Devil, and subject her to a cruel exorcism.
Faust's mistress, Sasha the Assassin, is also a mistress of disguise. You never know who's coming for you.
Despina Mirou
CIA asset Priapo Smegman’s foot fetish leads him into Faust’s bar, into the clutches of the CIA, and into abducting Sister St. Helen—
—with whom Father Rosario is also in love, and he must witness the sadistic casting out of the Devil, until Sasha takes a hand. He finds his sense of direction in Faust, who teaches him about life, not to say murder.
A radiant angel has Mephisto in her cross hairs, but he refuses to be drawn in.
Antigone Kouloukakos
Panurgia’s Queen Delicia, much to the king’s distress, is having an affair with Faust, and in her official capacity is able to help him with the disposal of the bodies. She can get anything done.
Georgia Siakavara

Question: When you rescue a kidnapped nun 
and she falls in love with you, what 
do you tell your mistresses?
Pretentious Pictures Presents
Faust: the movie

Robert MacLean is an independent filmmaker. His recent The Light Touch is on Amazon PrimeTubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a film reviewer, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. No brains, but an intellectual snob.

I was beastly but never coarse. A high-class sort of heel.

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The Natural Wish to Be Robert MacLean

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