Perso in una foresta ostile, il marchese d'Urfé, nobile emissario del re di Francia, trova rifugio nella casa di una strana famiglia.Perso in una foresta ostile, il marchese d'Urfé, nobile emissario del re di Francia, trova rifugio nella casa di una strana famiglia.Perso in una foresta ostile, il marchese d'Urfé, nobile emissario del re di Francia, trova rifugio nella casa di una strana famiglia.
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Sdenka: [quoting her father, Gorcha] Wait six days for me. If, after those six days, I have not returned, say a prayer in memory of me, for I shall have been killed in battle. But if ever, and may God preserve you, I were to return after six days have passed, I enjoin you to forget that I was your father and to refuse me entry whatever I may say or do - for then I shall be no more than an accursed vourdalak.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 966: Terrifier 3 (2024)
There is nothing comic about the story. In the middle of a forest (Serbian, in the original), a young marquis and ambassador of the King of France (excellent Kacey Mottet Klein) is assaulted and robbed by Turks. The courtier seeks help at the house of a peasant named Gorcha, to continue his journey. But the peasant family and the French diplomat, are all besieged by old Gorcha, who has become a bloodthirsty vurdalak. For his "mise en screen", Beau shot the film in 16 millimeters, which gives a richer and realistic visual quality to the image, in these days when we are accustomed to the pulchritudinous digital image; and in several scenes he resorts to the terror that arises from "the unseen", from what happens in the dark, instead of the explicit images in which the vurdalak subjugates all.
The decision to use a puppet may have been completely intentional, considering that all the characters are indifferent to his cadaverous appearance. Avoiding that "terror a la antique", with figures generated by the most macabre and sinister sector of an author's brain, and reluctant to make it visible with "grace a la CGI", Beau gives another dimension to the macabre, gives it some humor, with a cardboard entity without the fluidity of the computerized image, but which is capable of draining life and startle us, as the shot in which the vurdalak appears behind his little grandson and voraciously bites his neck and consumes his blood.
«The Vourdalak» premiered at the Venice Film Festival, within the framework of Critics' Week, where it won the Jury Prize for Best Female Performance for Ariane Labed (wife of Yorgos Lanthimos and awarded at that same festival for her performance in the drama «Attenberg» by Athina Rachel Tsangari). Currently it must be available on Amazon Prime (which co-produced it). Don't miss it and have your good glass of wine or bag of popcorn ready.
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- 30 giu 2024
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