The Frog
A French child, asleep beside a lily pond shortly before the First World War, swallows a frog. Mysteriously, the creature survives within him and endures throughout the boy's life filled with an exhilarating power over others. The Frog becomes a mock philosophical treatise on the culinary arts, the limits of belief, the sinister appeal of illness, and -- as the frog usurps even Pascal's sexuality -- eroticism. This brilliantly styled parable of violence and illusion explores with aching poignancy the very qualities that make us human.