sentences:  Arden directed the film and appeared in it uncredited; screenings at film festivals, including the 1972 London Film Festival, caused a considerable stir.The film depicts a woman's mental breakdown and rebirth in scenes at times violent and highly shocking; the writer and critic George Melly described it as "a most illuminating season in Hell", while the BBC Radio journalist David Will declared the film to be "a major breakthrough for the British cinema".Throughout her life, Arden's interest in other cultures and belief systems increasingly took the form of a personal spiritual quest.