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avril 14th, 2010 by erin5291649 |
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I must say I was extremely inflamed when I finally sat down to peep “Flavia the Heretic.” I first heard about the film years ago, abet when DVD was first coming out and the only plot to notice films like this was to pick massively expensive first bustle VHS tapes or indecent quality dupes. The word on the street about Florinda Bolkan’s account nunsploitation flick was uniformly respectable. Most reviewers commented on the bizarre gore sequences, sequences renown for being over the top in the brutality department. And since I enjoyed Bolkan’s unfamiliar performance as a tormented gypsy in Lucio Fulci’s giallo “Don’t Torture a Duckling,” I figured giving this film a examine was a no-brainer. Well, there is proper and terrible with “Flavia the Heretic.” Bolkan’s turn as a tormented nun is quite grand and well worth watching. Regrettably, the gore isn’t as disturbing as others said–at least not for me. Then again I’ve seen so many gore flicks that I’m probably jaded to most of this stuff. Whatever the case, “Flavia the Heretic” does succeed wildly on one famous point: the movie is far, FAR better than “The Other Hell,” hack director Bruno Mattei’s banal contribution to the nunsploitation genre.
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Through the eyes of Flavia Gaetani (Bolkan) we learn that fifteenth century Italy is not an amenable site for a young woman. The problems initiate when young Flavia witnesses the aftermath of a battle between Muslim invaders and her father’s military forces. A wounded soldier has the temerity to obtain spy contact with the young girl, even smiles at her, before Flavia’s father sees the two looking at each other and murders the Muslim in a fit of rage. So worthy for young care for. The result of this innocuous exchange sees our young heroine ushered into a convent for life. Flavia isn’t remarkable of a nun, however, as she continually pushes the rules of the Church and antagonizes its officers. For example, her walks through the countryside often seize her to the home of a Jew named Abraham (Claudio Cassinelli) for discussions of church doctrine as well as the role of women in society. Moreover, the young nun often undergoes hallucinations during lengthy bouts of prayers, hallucinations that tend to involve memories of the murdered Muslim soldier or one of the mosaics on the wall–of a male angel no less–assuming corporeal construct in order to woo her. Apparently you can lock up a woman’s body but you can’t imprison her sensuality or yearning for independence.
Flavia will eventually score an unlikely ally in the design of Sister Agatha (Maria Casares), another nun who begins to query why women must submit to the will and desires of man. In the meantime, the arrival of a Tarantula cult (!) throws the convent into a dither. The women in this organization thrash about in the throes of some outlandish force, leaving tedious them a message about liberation that makes a well-known impact on Flavia. Also influencing her burgeoning feminist views are several scenes of cringe inducing violence: a French nobleman who takes what he wants from the local ladies, ugly animal violence, and the peek of her father presiding over the torture assassinate of a fellow nun who happened to topple in with the Tarantula gals. Flavia eventually goes public with her recent beliefs when the Muslims invade the dwelling again. She manages to seduce the leader of this expedition and liberate the convent, thus allowing the nuns within to give tubby vent to their repressed emotions and desires. Our heroine even dons armor and leads a campaign against her father’s soldiers. You go girl! Sadly, everything she accomplishes eventually comes crashing down with horrific results–this is quiet the fifteenth century, after all.
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“Flavia the Heretic” is a movie a feminist scholar would probably like to analyze in an article. Most films in this genre would ramp up the gore and nudity in lieu of any meaningful themes. Not so “Flavia the Heretic”; this film spends nearly all its time discussing how women’s subservience to men is an unacceptable standard by which to live let alone function as a healthy human being. The gore is almost an afterthought, as though the writer and director decided to throw in some nauseating scenes in an attempt to method in the blood and carnage crowd. Don’t collect me wrong: the gory stuff witnessed by Flavia does occasionally merit a wince. Check out the scene where our heroine’s dad tortures that nun, for example. I peaceful can’t bear he…well, peep and behold for yourself. It’s quite warped, though. Unbiased as grisly is what happens to Flavia after the Church and the locals reestablish control when the Muslims retreat. We only examine what happens to her for a second or two, but the belief of the authorities executing a person in such a grotesque manner might send a few people running for the bathroom. Goodness, my leg is hurting unbiased thinking about it! If I had any problems with the film, it’s that the whole represent moves along in a painfully plain manner. The plodding straggle nearly threatens to end the film in its entirety.
While I’m not surprised in the least to gape Synapse Films release “Flavia” to disc, seeing as how they’ve made millions releasing controversial films to DVD, I am a bit disconcerted to gaze so few extras here. An interview with Bolkan, a trailer, and stills are the only things included as supplements. At least the record transfer looks nice, and the dazzling audio quality allows the spirited strings and flute salvage to approach across well. Those who like their feminist dogma slathered in gory carnage (Who doesn’t? ) should definitely give this one a go.
Flavia the Heretic is different from other exploitation films. Instead of being gore and sex hidden under a thin cover of message (like for example Ilsa: Shewolf for the SS or the even more shallow Cannibal Ferox), Flavia the Heretic has a legitimate message (absurd as it might be at times), but gets grouped in with the sex and gore movies that the Italians are so famed for.
After sharing a brief smile with a Muslim soldier before he gets decollated, Flavia is sent to a convent by her uncaring father, where she is vexed by apparitions of angels and unexplained torture of fellow nuns. She asks the ever vital quiz of why men have to be the rulers of women and finds a nun with sympathetic opinions who is even more anti-man than she. But then, salvation for her and friend: Muslims! Yeah, I know that sounds unique… well, because Muslims don’t really have the best track picture with femenism.
So Flavia manages to seduce the leader of the Muslim invaders after he defeats a group of Christian infidels, including one who Flavia has a clear grudge against (he was a French nobleman who raped a girl in a pig pen… dirty sex (not the Muslim draw) ) . Flavia then frees the nuns and tries to imagine a utopian femenist society, exemplified in a very well directed surreal dream sequence.
But things drop through for our heroine… as they always did for women who took up arms against the establishment at that time and she gets dispatched in a rather terrifying fashion.
The movie is more than nunsploitation. None of the scenes are all that violent. Movies like Slack Convent Walls were certainly more sexually graphic and dwelt remarkable longer on the sex scenes in attempt to accomplish the erotic. No such attempts were made in this movie, instead the sex and violence scenes did nothing more than near the spot, by striking a series of epiphanies in our heroines head.
Although parts of the movie are ridiculous… Sister Agatha talking about taking over the empty Vatican… there is a legitimately suitable movie under the surface of awful dubbing and the exploitation categorization. The movie is about femenism and its success being linked completely to the time. Flavia could not free the women from the oppressive hands of men. Some of the monologues sound ridiculous, but nothing that is said is so extrodinary, no, it is the the time and position things are said that effect them seem so out of set. Whether many of the analytical aspects of the movie were intentional is up to debate, but fair by watching the film, there is a lot that is beneath the surface.
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