alternativecandidate: The Duke of Burgundy (2014) “No one’s tried a film like this in a long, long t
alternativecandidate: The Duke of Burgundy (2014) “No one’s tried a film like this in a long, long time: an airless love story between women imagined by a man. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, from 1972, is the most obvious thing that comes to mind. But so does Victor Erice’s very different The Spirit of the Beehive from ’76, in which two little girls fall into an obsession with Frankenstein. The psychological complexity of Fassbinder’s cold, neurotic movie and the strange warmth and entomology of Erice’s are made formally complex with Strickland. (The movie shares its title with a species of butterfly.)”Wesley Morris -- source link