Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
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Fernando, The Friend: You are the Mother of the world. I beseech you like a son, you must grant me that grace. Only you can grant it. You must grant me that grace. You must or I will burn you! I will set your heart on fire, if you don't hear me...
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Magdalena Montezuma, star of the film, muse of Werner Schroeter, died 14 days after the filming in Portugal wrapped in 1984. The film is a requiem for her, everyone involved knew she was dying from cancer (discovered in 1982), and she apparently had wanted to die on set. The only professional review I can find from the time slaps it with the emperor's new clothes stamp, seemingly unaware of any context, and whilst Schroeter makes few concessions to the critics, it is actually a fantastic film in my view. It has the dramatic feel of opera, and seems to be about art, religion, lust and love all being dead ends, or at least they were for the characters. There is a quotation of a fragment of Poe's poem City in The Sea, which is about a city that death rules over sinking and being replaced by Hell. It feels very apt up against the creepy rose farm by the sea full of ghastly beauty and fatalistic characters. Only a letter addressed to a location in Portugal provides any clue to the location being in Europe as opposed to Brazil, or Atlantis. Unlike the poem, it's clear that life will continue after the events end, as shown by the band of local children. But this is not an optimistic note as the children seem ignorant and cruel. With some graphic lingering gore, full frontal nudity, scenes of perverse animal cruelty, and with scant regard for the casual viewer, The Rose King is not for everybody, and has pretty much sunk without trace. I'll remember it for its sporadic ecstasies of light, and for its incredible emotional darknesses. The movie left me in pleasant lassitude as do many films which handle depression well.
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- 25 janv. 2015
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By what name was Der Rosenkönig (1986) officially released in Canada in English?
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