I’m not actually sure what the point of Vortex is. It comes to us from 1967, a black and white movie about a woman and her — husband? boyfriend? partner? — and the partner’s brother, and some other random men. Most of it takes place on a Greek island after the brother has vanished. Some of it takes place the day before they leave London, when the woman has sex with her partner’s brother. None of it takes place in the realm of linear logic and sound reasoning.
There are a lot of pauses. There’s a lot of repetitive action. And periodically there are scenes where you can see the director and the crew. This is clearly not accidental, as there are scenes of the director directing the actors through a scene — multiple times.
Whatever the heck this movie is, it’s not a CMP movie. Maybe there was subtext that I missed. Maybe it just didn’t make any sense. There was an ominous pair of scissors that never were used for anything except atmosphere. Maybe they cut the sense out of the movie?