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Split english and norwegian posts.
This turned out a bit different than I initially though. The english and norwegian sections will essentially be separate. Afaict there's no direct way to make a "combined view" listing both english and norwegian posts. However, I think that's fine. Let's roll with this for now.
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-title = "Peter Greenaway: The Baby of Mâcon"
-lang = "en"
-
-[taxonomies]
-tags = ["film", "Peter Greenaway", "surrealism"]
-
-[extra]
-author = "harald"
-+++
-
-{% figure(img="baby-of-macon.jpg") %}
-_The Baby of Mâcon_ poster. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia.
-{% end %}
-
-There's film, and there's film by Peter Greenaway.
-
-I've been a fan of this extraordinary film maker from the first time I saw [The
-Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]. So I was sligthly surprised when I found
-a new film directed by the master that I didn't know about. [The Baby of Mâcon]
-is far from new, but not one of his most well known films. Released in 1993, it
-stired some controversy and was [refused distribution] in the USA. That pretty
-much sealed its fate as an underground classic.
-
-<!-- more -->
-
-As usual with Greenaway, the set and the filming is magnificent! The film is
-set in a 17th century italian theatre, and we follow a stageplay about
-corruption, desception and religious abuse and power. That is, we're woven in
-and out of the play itself as well as the interaction with the audience and the
-actors themselves. A wealthy prince and his court is in the audience, but also
-takes part in the play. Sometimes as a commentators, sometimes directly taking
-part in the act itself. Also the line between the actors and their characters
-blurr as the story unfolds. All of this wrapped in a magnificent theatre set
-filled with religious ornaments, relics and an aura of sacredness.
-
-> "The men and the women does not play in their beds anymore. Copulation is serious business!"
-
-While the set is beautiful, the plot is all but. The play takes us to the
-village of Mâcon where famine and drought have caused the animals to wither and
-the women to become infertile.
-
-In the midst of this a baby is born by an old and ugly woman. A beautiful child
-that gives hope to the vilage that the bad times are ending.
-
-The child is abused, first by his elder sister which sees the hope and
-desperation of the villagers as a source to enrich herself. She claims it's her
-child born by virgin birth, and stages him as a divine creature that provides
-blessings to the villagers willing to pay the price. And indeed the village
-prospers and with it the power of the childs sister.
-
-The story that unfolds is ugly and meant to challenge the viewer. It's
-difficult to feel sympathy with anybody, and the level of corruption permeating
-every scene brings as much distaste as the scenery itself brings joy. This is
-where Peter Greenaway shines. By the way he portrays the people that could
-evoke some symapthy he makes the viewer an accomplice to the tragedy, because
-they are so unlikeable. Even the child itself, which at first appears an
-innocent victim of his sisters greed is at the end of it in some sort of
-control of the entire situation. Far from the innocent instrument from which
-others can enrich themselves.
-
-[The Baby of Mâcon] is a film that can not be described. It has to be experienced.
-
-[The Baby of Mâcon]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106335/
-[The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/
-[refused distribution]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106335/trivia?item=tr0729697
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