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…