women will do anything in the pursuit of beauty!!!!!!!!!!!!

some of the feminist themes in this r a little too hamfisted for me personally (like a man enacting #justice saying "no mirrors in your room to punish you for your vanity!" when she's literally being entombed for her crimes resulting from her vanity, as if it needed to be said aloud or we would miss it?) but if you dig thru the pop feminist trash about beauty standards (which is literally like the least interesting thing in the world to me b/c every single time almost anything is about beauty standards its from the pov of a thin white cis woman which is boring as shit) there's some interesting stuff…

Julie Delpy directed, wrote, produced and composed the music for this film. She also plays the infamous Countess Erzebet Bathory, with a fierceness, grace, and agony that I've rarely seen in fucking anything. I posted a Twitter thread while I was watching this because my heart and soul couldn't contain how it made me feel: totally and completely wrecked.

Sometimes I watch something and I wonder where the fuck its been my entire life. Like, where have I been for almost ten years while this movie has existed in the world? Why don't women get to make beautiful, heartbreaking, violently romantic things like this more often? Why don't women get to make things more often, period? What a world we…

HoopTober Cinco: It’s October, Baby!
Film 13 of 31
Six countries: France/Germany

In der Hauptrolle Julie Delpy,
welche sie sich praktischerweise selbst schrieb, das erspart unnötigen Casting-Stress.

It’s strongly hinted, that Erzebet Báthory became victim of a conspiracy in good ol’ witch hunt tradition, a daring idea to chew on long after the film is over, in case you have time at your disposal for pondering about Hungarian noblewomen slash alleged serial killers from the 16th and 17th century and their fate. History is de facto written by winners, and her independency in terms of education, wealth and wits, clear-cut established initially, might have been a threat not only for clergymen. Insofar it’s likely she never was the one kicking…

When I received this in the mail yesterday on Netflix DVD, I couldn't for the life of me remember why I had put this on my queue. Was Netflix f**king with me? (I'm 50% sure they have sent me stuff that's not on my queue in the past.)

No, Netflix was not. I had put this on my queue, I remembered when I started it, because Julie Delpy had written, directed, and starred in this film. So I basically wanted to support Delpy, and see what she had done. Well, there's a reason this movie has been (mostly) lost to time. It is so bad. Like, I felt like I was watching a made-for-TV movie bad. Wooden acting, predictable storyline,…

HoopTober Cinco: It’s October, Baby!
Film 13 of 31
Six countries: France/Germany

In der Hauptrolle Julie Delpy,
welche sie sich praktischerweise selbst schrieb, das erspart unnötigen Casting-Stress.

It’s strongly hinted, that Erzebet Báthory became victim of a conspiracy in good ol’ witch hunt tradition, a daring idea to chew on long after the film is over, in case you have time at your disposal for pondering about Hungarian noblewomen slash alleged serial killers from the 16th and 17th century and their fate. History is de facto written by winners, and her independency in terms of education, wealth and wits, clear-cut established initially, might have been a threat not only for clergymen. Insofar it’s likely she never was the one kicking…