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BELLADONNA OF SADNESS
Sa, 22. Jun 2024
22:30 - 23:55
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"Lichtspiele Kalk" show in the film series "Cinemania Kalk"...
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BELLADONNA OF SADNESS
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Japan 1973 | 86 min. | HD | FSK 16
Japanese original version with German subtitles
Japan 1973 | 86 min. | HD | FSK 16
Japanese original version with German subtitles
"If you think of animated cinema as a diverse flora, then EiichiYamamoto's masterpiece BELLADONNA OF SADNESS is probably the rarest of flowers. The third and final installment of the Animerama trilogy, which has opened up anime with adult themes and content, tells the story of newlywed peasant woman Jeanne, who is raped by a nobleman and subsequently haunted by a phallus-shaped demon. She is to take revenge for the violations inflicted on her.
Yamamoto based his long legendarily obscure anime on Jules Michelet's non-fiction book "La Sorciére": in both works, (presumed) witchcraft is described as a viable and popular rebellion against oppression by feudal rulers and the church. BELLADONNA OF SADNESS is a radical feminist, subversive fantasy whose outrageous combination of explicit sexuality and violence has lost none of its transgressive potential to this day. The images, often painted with watercolours and brought to life by tracking shots, repeatedly culminate in frenetically rhythmic, excessively charged orgies of color and form that not only allow us to understand Jeanne's emancipation from all oppressors, but also to feel it.
An endlessly fascinating, pulsating gem and one of the great masterpieces of animated cinema and fantastic film." Slash Film Festival 2016
Price information:
Ticket VVK via www.lichtspiele-kalk.de or telephone reservation under 0221 29 49 49 79 ... Admission € 9.00 // reduced € 8.00 (students, apprentices, school / FSJ / people under 25 / guild pass) // Cologne Pass € 7.00
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