{"id":11731,"date":"2019-04-25T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:17:21","slug":"review-hagazussa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/review-hagazussa\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: German Folk Horror Hagazussa<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Etymology time! \u201cHagazussa\u201d (\u201chedge sitter\u201d), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like \u201chag\u201d and \u201chex,\u201d refers to the old women who would sit near the hedges that separated cultivated land from wild forests, gathering herbs and such while the menfolk did agricultural labor. The movie called Hagazussa<\/em><\/strong> is about a medieval Alp-dwelling goatherd named Albrun (Aleksandra Cwen), whose name comes from roots meaning \u201celf, supernatural being\u201d and \u201csecret, magic.\u201d Albrun has a baby despite there being no evidence that she\u2019s ever had a man in her life (no evidence besides the baby, I mean), and she keeps to herself in a shack in the mountains, where she regularly encounters (causes?) unnatural phenomenon. You can see why the bratty, superstitious children in the village think she\u2019s a witch. Also, maybe she is one? Subtitled A Heathen\u2019s Curse<\/em>, this gorgeously photographed, almost dialogue-free debut feature from German writer-director Lukas Feigelfeld tells Albrun\u2019s story elliptically, ambiguously, letting the tension and sinister omens build almost unbearably. I wasn\u2019t totally satisfied by the eventual release — it’s possible I missed some of the significance of the film’s folkloric elements and other imagery — but even so, it’s a singular tone poem that evokes powerful unease. \"\"<\/p>\n

Screened at Fantastic Fest 2017<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grade: B<\/span><\/h3>\n
1 hr., 42 min.; not rated; in German with English subtitles<\/em><\/h5>\n
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Etymology time! \u201cHagazussa\u201d (\u201chedge sitter\u201d), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like \u201chag\u201d and \u201chex,\u201d refers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":11732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}