La messe dorée AKA La profonda luce dei sensi (1975)

A big house, stifling and old like the world. A long night filled with uncontrolled emotions. A group of people on the verge of delirium. They have been invited by Hélène, a kind of Mother Courage, innocent and depraved, clear headed and dreamer at the same time. "We've to see if we're still alive", she screams in front of her invites. Hélène knows that the world is going to die. The long night journey begins with hesitation. A big dinner awaits the invites. Hélène gives these scraped together sons of her a boost to eat, to drink, to give themselves away...Weaves loaded by obscure desires start to surface and overwhelm all the people...First Hélène herself gets carried away. She knows that a human being has to lose himself, has to die, in order to reach the darkest depths, because then, maybe, further...