'The Iron Rose' aka 'La Rose De Fer' (1973) – Jean Rollin.

With a remarkably elegiac text by writer Maurice Lemaitre, maestro Jean Rollin's darkly surrealistic romance is doomily set against the macabre, baroque beauty of an ostensibly deserted graveyard. An initially coy, newly courting couple, energetically caught up in the heady rush of mutual attraction spontaneously seek shelter in a sinisterly sprawling, shadow-steeped cemetery, as their ardour increases, Rollin's scintillatingly strange, whimsically wyrd, ethereally eerie phantasmagoria about tomb young lovers and their morbidly sensual graveyard fling belies its simple premise with the director's sublime command of eldritch atmosphere, and forbidden eroticism is put to strikingly poetical use in one of Jean Rollin's most visually striking, exotically stimulating, profoundly engrossing nocturnal fantasies!

'The Iron Rose' is held in high regard by a great many film fans for good reason, arguably, its most enduring appeal lies in the bountifully bosomy presence of exquisitely earthy Euro-starlet Françoise Pascal whose playful, physically uninhibited performance creates an indelibly erotic impression upon the viewers imagination; the luxuriously lissome Pascal gracefully pirouetting dance among the desolated tombstones is the mesmerizing highlight of maestro Rollin's most cohesive, and beautifully constructed Gothic fantasies; the beguilingly blackened bloom of Iron Rose's eternally fascinating, far from rose-tinted allure remains wholly untarnished!