Didier Konings’ simmering mediaeval horror Witte Wieven explores the confluence of religion and patriarchy in an excessively puritanical Dutch village. Blamed by her community for being childless, Frieda immerses herself in prayer and ritual. When she returns unscathed from the forbidden forest surrounding the village, having evaded a lecherous butcher, she is condemned as an agent of the devil. Frieda, however, finds new faith in the dark powers that inhabit the woods.
Shot in a reduced colour palette at the edge of visibility, Konings’ gripping film constructs a convincing pre-modern society whose practices it elucidates with patience and attention. Although set in the Middle Ages, Witte Wieven displays an unmistakably contemporary spirit, crafting a feminist parable about women discovering new ways of understanding their lives and the world.
阿爾維托·阿瑪里利亞 奧娜·卓別林 拉蒂西亞·多瑞拉 杰拉丁·卓別林 弗朗切斯科·卡爾內(nèi)盧蒂 亞歷克斯·安克呂羅 Silvia De Santis 市川純 小橋賢兒 保羅·德·維塔 Francesco Martino Matteo Danese Franco Pistoni Anna Cuculo 洛倫佐·佩德羅蒂
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