Haiku Movie Review: The Countess

Oracle of Delpy. Julie Delpy as Countess Bathory, giving that formidable woman a feminist spin. Note to self: when giving feminist manifesto in historical drama, do not choose as mouthpiece the criminally whack. Delpy says of the movie, which she also wrote and directed, "In a way, [the film] is feminist but also non-feminist. I think that it isn’t ‘feminist’ to say women are perfect. There is no such thing as everyone being great...We’re all individuals. People say that if women ruled the world things would be perfect and I don’t think that’s true.” Well, bleeding young virgins to death for cosmetological benefits is kinda beyond not being perfect, so let's just get that out there now. The incoherence of being "feminist but also non-feminist" translates into bad art.

Feminist script? Check.

Obsessive sex? Sapphic? Check.

Blood of virgins?  Um...

Comments

[Jamie]

The Countess is dark.

There is no doubt about that.

I suck at haikus.

Okay, that movie was disturbing. Intriguing though.