AKA - A Heathen’s Curse
Labeled as Horror, though I don’t necessarily agree.
Close in tone to 2016’s The VVitch, only the environment is more primitive, and the community more fragmented.
A mother and daughter live isolated from the nearby village. They raise goats, barter milk.
Because they are isolated, they are viewed with suspicion. Outsiders.
Film beautifully captures the austerity of hardship.
While slow (the girl, later woman, Albrun, often spends great lengths staring, seemingly vacantly), there is a lot going on. An immersion, if you will, into Nature, the pulsing life force.
This is also a tale of vengeance, though the distracted will probably miss it.
Well worth your time. And I still dislike the Horror label as I fear that will mislead casual sorts into expecting modern attitudes and plot devices. I wish there was another label.
