Luzifer

Just checked out the trailer again after I saw this rough and daring movie at Locarno. Variety teased it as an reimagination of a true story of an innocent, Kaspar Hauser-like man with the heart of a child.

I have to say Herzogs "Kasper Hauser" was strang and beautiful and silly. This one is more like an Ed Gein character from a "Psycho", or François Truffaut "The Wild Child" from planet Eagle language.

I love the meditative space the story generated and circled and circeld to a point of no return and true emotion. If you're up for real emotions and a horror coming from real life: this is your popcon bite!

This is pure cinematic art, what a disturbing film full of symbolism. I found the falconry images fantastic. I was impressed by the representation of a syncretic Catholicism, immersed in an extremely telluric paganism as a counterpoint to the invasion of modernity that destroys nature, cutting down trees, killing people. Mud, images of saints, rosaries, bibles, cilices, self-flagellation, an attempt to make holy water out of dirty water from a frozen lake... What a strange film!

Who is the devil? They ask in Luzifer. But who is Susanne Jensen?

This woman who survived abuse and is a pastor now creeped me out in a great way. Never saw an exocism movie like this where a true horror is captured. I wonder how many know this devil inside themselves?

Bravo Susanne, bravo Eagle for Luzifer!

I appreciate the effort to show us a different horror story that makes you think who really is the devil. Is it a human Creation? Is it us? Is it progress? Is it technology? I think I'll be thinking of this movie for a while.

I thought it would rise to retaliation against outsiders. Unexpectedly, the story continued between mother and son and myself. It was boring and wasted a good theme.