1/1/2023 0 Comments Bathory 1080p torrent![]() ![]() The tale is told, too, by the peasants and others whose sons are fighting in her army. We are watching a fantasy of a noblewoman enacting a tale "told by the victors"-by the men who were enriched by her downfall and relieved, too, to be rid of the very possibility of an intelligent woman. The film proposes that what we are seeing before our eyes is not the truth about the Countess. And that's before you get to the blood-of-virgins part. The Countess in particular is a strange, unique portrait-her piety, her desire for amorous adventure, her pride, her intelligence. On the other hand, I found the acting very fine, and I admired the insistence on presenting these characters as not at all like you, me, or the folks in the latest TV drama. I kept feeling that the whole movie had been dubbed into English. As others have noted, the dialogue is amazingly stilted (very literary, rather like a French novel of the 17th or 18th century) and delivered in near-monotone. I really enjoyed this film (at home on pay-per-view)though I think it is intended for a pretty narrow audience. Well, actually, in the Little Carpathians, apparently, which are not part of Transylvania, or so Wikipedia tells me. Reviewed by jshoaf 8 / 10 Rashomon in Transylvania ![]()
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