Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ) Japanese Poster Illustrated By: Kuni Fukai & Directed By: Eiichi Yamamoto (1973)
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哀しみのベラドンナ
(belladonna of sadness)
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Belladonna of Sadness (1973) // dir. Eiichi Yamamoto
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Belladonna of Sadness, Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973
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I liked the part with the bats.
Creative animation and gorgeous watercolour artwork, set to a fantastic score. A surprisingly coherent narrative for a movie with such psychedelic and abstract visuals. I guess I just didn't find it very compelling.
The way the evil of satan entering her was depicted as a montage of modern day culture was fun. I also particularly enjoyed the sequence with the black death sweeping over the land like a flood, melting the very foundations of the city. Unfortunately some of the animations had a truly awful strobe effect that hurt the hell out of my eyes.
That time skip at the end really threw me for a loop, too. I mean, I get what it was saying, with her martyrdom sewing seeds for the future revolution, it just seemed like an odd thing to bring up at the last moment. Was she supposed to literally be Jeanne d'Arc, or just analogous with her?
Strange movie. Often repetitive, maybe insubstantial. Pretty good though.
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BERADONNA
UTSUKUSHI ONNA
BERADONNAA
KOI O SHITA ONNAAAAAAAAAA
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