#Des Teufels Bad

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DES TEUFELS BAD (2024) dir. Veronika Franz und Severin Fiala

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The Devil's Bath (2024) | dir. Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

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The Devil’s Bath 🇦🇹

'Des Teufels Bad'

2024

Directed by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala

18th century Austria. Villages surrounded by deep forests. A woman is sentenced to death after killing a baby. Agnes is marrying her loved one and candidly prepares herself for a spouse life. Soon after, her head and heart start to feel heavy. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts. Maybe not just thoughts…

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The Devil's Bath (2024) dir. Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala

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new-to-me #829 - Des Teufels Bad (The Devil’s Bath)

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The Devil's Bath

directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, 2024

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The Devil's Bath (Veronika Franz - Severin Fiala, 2024)

The Devil's Bath è un film ambientato nel 700. I registi dopo lo studio di alcuni documenti storici dell'epoca hanno ricostruito e messo in scena una storia a dir poco agghiacciante.

Ci troviamo in un piccolo villaggio austriaco, popolato da gente profondamente religiosa e superstiziosa. Il film comincia con una donna che uccide un neonato gettandolo da una cascata. In seguito vedremo che dopo essersi confessata, questa donna verrà decapitata, dopodiché le taglieranno le dita delle mani e dei piedi. Dopo questa sequenza di forte impatto il film si focalizza su Agnes, la protagonista, ( interpretata da una straordinaria Anja Plaschg) una giovane donna che ha appena sposato un uomo di nome Wolf. La vita matrimoniale di Agnes non è esattamente quella che si aspettava.

Lei desidera avere un figlio ma il marito evita qualsiasi contatto fisico con lei.

Inoltre la donna subisce continue pressioni da parte della suocera, che pretende che essa sia una moglie servile e precisa nello svolgere le mansioni da donna di casa.

Tutto questo non farà altro che distruggere l'equilibrio mentale di Agnes che si sentirà sempre più inadeguata e cercherà rifugio nella fede, pregando ossessivamente... finché non prenderà una decisione estrema e terrificante.

Un film con una regia molto precisa e curata, con ambientazioni boschive affascinanti ma allo stesso tempo cupe.

Una colonna sonora minimale e mai invadente che fa da sfondo a una storia che scorre lentamente e ci fa provare una sensazione di forte angoscia. Gli ultimi 20 minuti mi hanno completamente devastata, ma nello stesso tempo incuriosita tant'è che alla fine del film mi sono fiondata a cercare fonti riguardo questi avvenimenti realmente accaduti.

Un film che forse non verrà apprezzato da chi non sopporta un ritmo di narrazione lento (per certi versi simile a "You won't be alone") ma chi ama il genere folk/horror ne rimarrà sicuramente soddisfatto.

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The Devil's Bath | Official Trailer | Shudder

Dir: Veronika Franz / Severin Fiala Star: Anja Plaschg / David Scheid / Maria Hofstätter

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Trailer - Des Teufels Bad (Austria, 2024) dir. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala

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i think the thing about Des Teufels Bad / The devil's bath that fucked me up the most were the parallels between the wedding and the execution because what the fuckkkk

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DES TEUFELS BAD | HD Trailer (German)

"Des Teufels Bad" aus dem Jahr 2024 ist ein düsterer Psychothriller, der im Jahr 1750 in Oberösterreich spielt. Der Film folgt Agnes (Anja Plaschg), einer tiefreligiösen und sensiblen Frau, die sich in der kalten und arbeitsreichen Welt ihres frisch angetrauten Ehemannes Wolf (David Scheid) zunehmend verloren fühlt. Ihre inneren Konflikte werden durch die Strenge ihrer Umgebung und die strengen religiösen Dogmen verstärkt. Als sie Zeugin der öffentlichen Zurschaustellung einer hingerichteten Frau wird, wächst ihr Gefühl der Fremdheit und Isolation. Sie gerät in eine tiefe Melancholie, die sie schließlich zu einem gewaltsamen Ausweg zu drängen scheint.

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Des Teufels Bad (The Devil's Bath) (2024) Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz.

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Des Teufels Bad/The Devil’s Bath was a brutal bleak folk horror that leans more Lottery than I’d like. Great movie, well made, hard watch, hard to recommend.

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I watched "The Devil's Bath" which is such a harrowing film that I desperately need to seek out some high grade wholesomeness or fluff right now to be able to sleep tonight. I out my thoughts into a letterboxd review, you'll find it below if you're interested. I does not contain spoilers.

Ever since I heard about Anja Plaschg aka Soap & Skin debuting as a lead actress in a historical drama set in medieval Austria, I knew I had to keep an eye on this project. Massive trigger warnings for this one, as it deals with suicide, depression, mental illness intertwined with religion, self harm, dead children and dead animals.

The topic in itself is as bleak as it gets: The film focuses on "suicide by proxy", a phenomenon that occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, when people were so afraid of eternal damnation, that rather than killing themselves, suicidal individuals sometimes chose to commit a serious crime, like the murder of a child in order to turn themselves in, confess, be absolved of their sins and face execution. So far, so depressing.

I have a hard time deciding on how to rate this movie. Very well made, very difficult to watch. It is shot beautifully, the foggy valleys and overgrown forests provide a mysterious and magical backdrop, the historical foundation seems well researched. Anja Plaschg delivers a truly harrowing performance as the lead and also composed a haunting soundtrack to match. Similarly to Robert Eggers' The VVitch, the film provides a glimpse into the horrors of being truly pious in a time were all aspects of your life depended on it. Now, imagine if the VVitch had no supernatural element at all and ended with the mental breakdown and death of the female protagonist. Unlike the VVitch I feel like "Des Teufels Bad" refrains from giving you even the smallest speck of comfort, hope, or even a slither of joy amidst all the suffering, which makes it much harder to sit through and leaves you with a sick feeling in your stomach. Devil's Bath sure is a powerful piece of cinema, yet I certainly don't enjoy watching a woman suffer for 2 hours. If they had managed to include some resistance to the historical premise, some sort of subversive twist, I would have liked it much better and it would have felt less like prolonged torture with too little to say to justify the ordeal.