Mortificator wrote:The one thing it has over The Witch is... the witch. In the earlier film, any witchy women were mostly offscreen. Here, Alice Krige is the only substantial character Gretel interacts with - Hansel is a dunce - and is great at projecting a sinister aura.
I have so much to tell about
Satanism and Witchcraft (
La Sorcière) book by Jules Michelet that I don't even start (would drain way more juice out of me than it's really worth, I feel). At the very least, it's worth READING as a rageously anticlerical supplementation of
The Golden Bough by sir James George Frazer, if you can dig XIXth Century's ways of reasoning as we can get to know them from books.* (It was not quite as long ago as the ongoing "acceleratrion of (life-)time" would have you believe; all that crisis of faith seems to bring forth is re-birth of faith, most lately in transhumanism, unless that's yestrday's news already.)
*) And strictly, exclusively from books. Surely, reading NEWSPAPERS from their time and age would enrich the picture greatly. Or visiting a handful of surviving cycloramas...
Apologies for digressing so in a thread not quite about books, but
La Sorcière had been haunting me for so long that, still not feeling like writing a review it quite deserves, the above W-word was enough to trigger me like that.
By the way, there's a Japanese animated film (not quite "anime") based on the - generously fictionalised - first part of
La Sorcière, titled
Kanashimi no Belladonna/
Belladonna of Sadness.
That's as witch-centric as they come a movie.