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author | Harald Eilertsen <haraldei@anduin.net> | 2020-06-07 14:14:41 +0200 |
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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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diff --git a/content/film/2015-03-13-film-baby-of-macon/index.md b/content/film/2015-03-13-film-baby-of-macon/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2555b9c..0000000 --- a/content/film/2015-03-13-film-baby-of-macon/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -+++ -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 - |