{"id":609509,"date":"2024-02-20T22:18:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-beautiful-staggeringly-bleak-period-drama\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T22:18:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T19:18:42","slug":"watch-beautiful-staggeringly-bleak-period-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-beautiful-staggeringly-bleak-period-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Beautiful, Staggeringly Bleak Period Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2bf0597d433\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2bf0597d433\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-beautiful-staggeringly-bleak-period-drama\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Beautiful_Staggeringly_Bleak_Period_Drama%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Beautiful, Staggeringly Bleak Period Drama&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-beautiful-staggeringly-bleak-period-drama\/#%E2%80%9CBeautiful_Staggeringly_Bleak_Period_Drama%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Beautiful, Staggeringly Bleak Period Drama&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Beautiful_Staggeringly_Bleak_Period_Drama%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Beautiful, Staggeringly Bleak Period Drama&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBeautiful_Staggeringly_Bleak_Period_Drama%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Beautiful, Staggeringly Bleak Period Drama&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Although it comes from the filmmaking duo behind \u201cGoodnight Mommy\u201d and \u201cThe Lodge,\u201d Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala\u2018s \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Bath\u201d is not a horror movie. Its sinister, woodsy atmospherics, where wet leaves mingle with mud and fishscales and menstrual blood, may suggest witchcraft or devil worship. But it is actually something far more frightening \u2014 an exploration, based on real records, of a chapter of Austrian history so dark it could be a black hole, which might account for its invisibility to posterity. But if the story is so pitilessly bleak you may want to look away, the filmmaking craft is so compelling that you can\u2019t. The world of \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Bath\u201d is one that cannot be easily escaped, however much one might want, in the words of one of the women it emblematizes, \u201cto be gone from it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    With only a couple of feature acting credits to her name, Anja Plaschg (who as Soap&amp;Skin also provides the soulful scraping strings and broken, breathy folk hymns on the soundtrack) is astonishingly convincing as Agnes, the young woman first seen h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ily weaving berries and twigs into her bridal headdress. It is 1750 in the Styria region of Upper Austria and Agnes is to marry Wolf (David Scheid) and move to his lakeside fishing community some way away from her native village. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The wedding is a joyful occasion, even if Agnes is nonplussed by the hillside house Wolf has borrowed money to buy for them. When her brother gives her the dismembered finger of a woman recently executed for infanticide (an act we witness in the film\u2019s somber prologue) to use as a fertility token, she happily accepts, and places it under her and Wolf\u2019s shared mattress.\u00a0Religiosity and grisly, quasi-pagan superstition co-exist quite easily here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    However Wolf, who seems a little fixated on a good-looking male neighbor, does not consummate their marriage that night, nor the next.\u00a0And Agnes is trying and failing to the learn the ropes of her new lifestyle of fishing and homemaking, and isn\u2019t helped by the constant interfering supervision of her mother-in-law (Maria Hofst\u00e4tter). Little cruelties mount up \u2014 Wolf unthinkingly discards Agnes\u2019 precious little trove of papery butterfly and dragonfly wings. Agnes\u2019 tiny act of rebellion in taking the skillets down from the hooks on which her mother-in-law insist they be hung is quickly reversed. Soon she finds herself spending more time alone, gazing at the wax doll of the infant Jesus at church, murmuring prayers and humming Marian hymns before the moldering corpse of the murderess, which has been left as a strange kind of shrine in the woods. Does Agnes pity the dead woman or envy her the end of all her troubles? <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Franz and Fiala\u2019s screenplay is gripping in its austerity, but it contains nothing in the way of surprise: once you understand the rapidly descending track this narrative is set upon, it continues plotting a viciously straight line from that brief dazzle of wedding-night hope down to previously unplumbed depths of despair without the slightest deviation. But Plaschg imbues the quiet Agnes with a riveting interiority, in an exceptional performance that exudes the same rough-hewn anguish that permeates every aspect of this immaculately fashioned production. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    From the textures of Tanya Hausner\u2019s costume design \u2014 scratchy hessian fabrics crudely cinched in with drawstrings \u2014 to the warp and weft of light and earth in Martin Gschlacht\u2019s extraordinary photography, the world of \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Bath\u201d seems less filmed than it is woven out of the elements. In the odd moment of grace, like when a butterfly lands on Agnes\u2019 upturned face, or the many gory acts of slaughter and execution, the imagery braids blood and beauty together as in a crown of thorns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe devil made me do it\u201d is the frequent refrain of the piously insane. But here murder is motivated not by Satan, but by a loophole in ecclesiastical doctrine, which states that a murderer might attain forgiveness and die in God\u2019s grace, where a suicide cannot, and must be damned.\u00a0The premeditated logic of this \u201csuicide by proxy\u201d strategy makes dubious the suggestion of insanity or possession on the part of these killers for sure. But there is also the creepy idea that in a society this circumscribed and oppressive perhaps taking another\u2019s life was one of the only truly free, independent acts that a woman could commit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It is terrible to contemplate the 400 similar cases that a closing title informs us are recorded in the Austrian annals. But perhaps it\u2019s even more so to imagine the many thousands more women who lived out their days exactly as they were meant to: in miserable servitude to their husbands, to their communities and to an uncaring God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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