Giovanni Ribisi recommended this movie to the New Bev for a double feature after Strange Darling. I never heard of it, I didn’t even know it was foreign until the title credits came up. This is a very slow and meditative look at an insane woman that is out to cause trouble, much like the prior movie. She is a school teacher out in the old country. In her free time she crushes bird eggs, harasses one student, and tries to fuck his dad who’s a lumberjack. I mean the amount of animal cruelty in this movie is pretty astounding. From a flood where animals drown, to a fire, to the before mention bird eggs, to sexually stroking a snake, to whacking a live rabbit against wood logs, and poisoning the water supply, the animals in this movie really are the losers. The way Mademoiselle uses her favor with the town combined with her completely deranged nature really makes her one of the most evil femme fatales. I found this pretty hard to follow at first because it is pretty slow and meandering, but once you get the pace and are put into the spell, it’s a bizarre ride that I don’t know if I’ll ever revisit.
Giovanni Ribisi recommended this movie to the New Bev for a double feature after Strange Darling. I never heard of it, I didn’t even know it was foreign until the title credits came up. This is a very slow and meditative look at an insane woman that is out to cause trouble, much like the prior movie. She is a school teacher out in the old country. In her free time she crushes bird eggs, harasses one student, and tries to fuck his dad who’s a lumberjack. I mean the amount of animal cruelty in this movie is pretty astounding. From a flood where animals drown, to a fire, to the before mention bird eggs, to sexually stroking a snake, to whacking a live rabbit against wood logs, and poisoning the water supply, the animals in this movie really are the losers. The way Mademoiselle uses her favor with the town combined with her completely deranged nature really makes her one of the most evil femme fatales. I found this pretty hard to follow at first because it is pretty slow and meandering, but once you get the pace and are put into the spell, it’s a bizarre ride that I don’t know if I’ll ever revisit.
