Petite Mort

"There's a touch of Angela Carter about Beatrice Hitchman's beguiling debut—a sly, erotic thriller concerned with doubleness and duplicity."—The Guardian

"Sumptuous . . . part Moulin Rouge, part Alfred Hitchcock."—Grazia

Mesdames et Messieurs, presenting La Petite Mort, or, A Little Death . . .

A silent film, destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathé studio, before it was seen even by its director.

A lowly seamstress, who makes the costumes she should be wearing, but believes her talent—and the...