Circle of Power
Circle of Power, also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend, is a 1981 film, coproduced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White, and based on the nonfiction book The Pit A Group Encounter Defiled. It stars Yvette Mimieux in her final film performance to date.
Top management executives are required to spend a weekend with Bianca Ray at a hotel, where they are put under psychological pressure. As a prerequisite to the training course, participants must sign a waiver giving the company the release to physically and psychologically abuse the individuals in the course. The participants struggle with their shortcomings, such as obesity and alcoholism. Another individual is a closet homosexual, and a fourth is a transvestite. At one point in the film, the obese trainee is forced to eat trash and discarded food in front of the other seminar participants. Eventually, the seminar executives and their wives lose their inhibitions later on in the consciousnessraising coursework.The film won a Dramatic Films Award at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival. Circle of Power played under the title Mystique at the 1981 Chicago International Film Festival. ........
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