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Of Love and Other Demons

Directed by: Hilda Hidalgo

Cast: Eliza Triana, Pablo Derqui, Joaquin Climent

Running Time: 1 hr 35 mins

Rating: Nr

Release Date: Tbd

Plot: A young girl is confined to a convent after she is bitten by a rabid dog and is thought to be possessed. While there she falls in love with the priest who is trying to save her.

Who’S It For? Fans of coming-of-age tales will more than likely appreciate this or fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez may enjoy this adaptation. For those who were impressed with the visual style of The fall this film bears a striking resemblance in some ways.

Overall

Of Love and Other Demons tackles some tough subjects to be covered in a 95 minute movie. It attempts t detail a young girl’s sexual awakening,...

Rating: 2.5/5

Writers: Gabriel García Márquez (novel), Hilda Hidalgo (adaptation)

Director: Hilda Hidalgo

Cast: Pablo Derqui, Eliza Triana, Jordi Dauder, Joaquín Climent, Margarita Rosa de Francisco

Young Sierva is already possessed by some sort of magic before she is bitten by a rabid dog in the town market. With her three feet of copper curls and winding necklaces and strange speaking patois and her innocence that runs to the side of stupidity, Sierva is a mark for evil long before the dog latches onto her ankle. As the local bishop strongly believes that disease is the devil made visible, and that her subsequent illness is a mark of possession (not of physical frailty), the marquis’ beautiful daughter is sent to the local convent to be watched, observed, and (if need be) exorcised. But is Sierva really sick? And if she’s not physically ill, is she really possessed by the devil?...

Eliza Triana in Hilda Hidalgo‘s Of Love and Other Demons (top); Samuel Maoz‘s Lebanon (upper middle); Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker in Haim Tabakman‘s Eyes Wide Open (lower middle); Jung Sung-Il‘s Cafe Noir (bottom) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright will be present to talk about his career at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Sunday evening, June 20. Star Trek‘s J. J. Abrams will be Wright’s conversation partner. Other Sunday highlights at the Laff include Samuel Maoz‘s Lebanon, Jung Sung-Il‘s Cafe Noir, Haim Tabakman‘s Eyes Wide Open, and Hilda Hidalgo‘s Del amor y otros demonios / Of Love and Other Demons. Winner of the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival and of four Ophir Awards from the Israeli Film Academy, Lebanon takes place inside an Israeli tank on the first day of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon...