start from the end. At the end of the movie, a question arises in the mind of anyone who has even a vague idea who he was Erzsébet Báthory: but she, where was it? As the character represented in the coated film strongly supported by French Julie Delpy, who wrote, produced, directed, played and does not pay has also composed the musical score is just ridiculous and representation by a pale pink romance of the mad character of the Blood Countess.
The story of Countess Bathory is very fascinating, but little cultivated on the big screen (one of the few precedents, the Italo-English for "The Virgin Death Ride", 1973, and the UK "Death goes hand in hand with the virgins "the following year): born in Hungary in 1560, but raised in Transylvania, related to Vlad III, and historical figures of worship, halfway between vampires and serial murder, madness and practices witchcraft, sadism and large intelligence, in an era when women counted for little or nothing, unless they were royalty, a noblewoman, she was extremely powerful.
given in marriage to a nobleman of great cruelty, it was during the long absences of her husband that was started to practice magic from her aunt Karla.
The Bathory was a woman extremely cruel to the servants, ruthless, mad, had many lovers of both sexes, was devoted to black magic and its most famous feature, was convinced that the blood of virgins had a rejuvenating power on its skin, belief that he put into practice without hesitation: everything explained in an obviously very simplistic and concise but contains in itself already a great potential for a beautiful cinematic history.
potential not only wasted, but incinerated: the Countess played by Delpy monoespressiva is a woman, her madness is reduced to mere whims, his cruelty to some torture censurata.Si appropriately verges on the absurd with the love story between she and the young nobleman Thurzo Istvan, who yearn to see the madness, maybe the director / actress / producer wanted to ignore that there was no need of a love gone wrong to the Countess crazy, absolutely crazy because it was already his. It 'obvious that you had paid on the molasses film, make them desirable, and here's a story ready to be heated and eaten, painted a nice pink posticcio.Forse red blood was considered too much blood that sin if they see little in what should be the story of a Blood.
A film without a soul, the view is amazing the dedication of Delpy to film, a biopic film on television, tasteful, sleek, polished properly, absolutely senseless for a history stained with blood and delirium as one of the Countess Erzsébet.Un succession of virgin bled, with the vain Countess ... miracle ... you can see immediately younger, like in a bad spot for a wrinkle cream. There's descent into madness, the analysis of this obsession, it's like an album of beautiful figurines, which all put together they form a rudimentary plot narrative.
There is only one observation: if the Countess Bathory could have seen this film, Delpy and the whole crew would not have had a good end!
(Review ed.) Clare Pani / Araknex
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The Countess - USA 2009
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