This film is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless. If there is any meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.

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British Board of Film Censors report (1929-11-13) on the film La Coquille et le Clergyman

As the 1928 Germaine Dulac film (English title The Seashell and the Clergyman is about the erotic hallucinations of a priest lusting after a general's wife, they were likely correct. Some analysis concludes that, rather than not understanding the film, the politically-embattled BBFC simply did not want to go into detail as to their objections to an French experimental film.