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16 giu 2024 · Based on historical records from mid-18th century Upper Austria, The Devil’s Bath drops us into a rural society with strict codes governing the here and the hereafter. A baby cries, as its older brother conducts a shadow play on the laundry hung out to dry in the sun.
1 giorno fa · On the surface, The Devil’s Bath is a straightforward story of people who live very simple and grueling lives, an existence ruled by poverty, need, and the struggle to survive. Eventually, though, we witness a bloodthirsty rite that is symptomatic of a profoundly sick society: one that subdues and brutalizes women for merely daring to exist.
10 giu 2024 · Not for the faint of heart, The Devil’s Bath, from the filmmaking pair Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz , is set in Upper Austria in 1750, a time and place where religion and superstition co-exist in feverish fellowship.
19 giu 2024 · Inspired by the real phenomenon of 17th- and 18th-century European women committing suicide by state proxy—murdering people, usually children, in order to be executed by the state—The Devil’s Bath details a social configuration at once familiar and alienating.
21 giu 2024 · The Devil’s Bath is motivated by its character study, exploring the dread found at the intersections of rural peasant life, untreated mental health issues, a patriarchal environment and religious dogma through its almost documentary-like lens.
- Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
- Anja Plaschg
4 giorni fa · Viewers’ sympathies are worked over throughout the grim Austrian folk horror drama “The Devil’s Bath,” a dreadful period piece about a pious woman who seems doomed by her circumstances. Agnes ( Anja Plaschg ), an unhappily married woman who prays to God for mercy, makes more sense as a product of her time and setting, as they’re ...
6 giorni fa · The Devil's Bath film review by UK film critic Hope Madden. Starring Anja Plaeschg, David Scheid directed by Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz.
