#la sorcière

[fujikosouvenir]

Belladonna of Sadness 哀しみのベラドンナ 1973 Japanese movie poster, version 1

[weirdlookindog]

Martin van Maële (1863–1926) - vignette from Jules Michelet’s ‘La Sorcière’ 1911 edition

[cosmonautroger]

Martin Van Maële, La Sorcière, 1911

[watcher-in-the-woods]

Belladonna of Sadness (哀しみのベラドンナ, 1973)

Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto Screenplay by Yoshiyuki Fukuda & Eiichi Yamamoto Based on the book La Sorcière, written by Jules Michelet.

[tomoleary]

François Ruyer “La Sorcière”

She rides an angry vacuum cleaner.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Scene from Sardou's "La Sorcière" play in the Parisian Sarah Bernhardt Theatre

French vintage postcard

[the-blue-fairie]

@ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland It remains fascinating to me that, in the US, the film Kirikou and the Sorceress is kinda obscure and only available in a blurry print and old non-anamorphic DVDs while in other countries it's just... a children's film? Like, a restoration was on the Criterion Channel for a few months some years ago, but that's been gone for ages now.

It's because of the completely nonsexual animated nudity that's so matter-of-fact within the film and normal among the culture it portrays that it becomes irrelevant. And some people might say, "Well, if it's irrelevant then they could have just censored it for the US release," but like... that would have been a loss to the film.

Like, it's all very well for people to say things like "Nudity in and of itself is nonsexual" but having a film where the nudity is so mundane you might even forget about it (or at least be forced to confront your own cultural biases regarding nudity) shows that.

This is the way these people live. It is ordinary. The film doesn't try to otherize its characters because of it.

It just is.

And that makes it integral to the film.

I only saw the film for the first time when it appeared on the Criterion Channel, but I feel like if I'd grown up with it (there would have been no chance of that; my family would have confiscated the DVD), I'd have had a less complicated emotional journey regarding my body.

[toodrunktofindaurl]

please say something

[cry-ptidd]

Karaba la sorcière

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Hans Holzer - La Sorcellerie renaissante - Marabout - 1975

[fujikosouvenir]

Belladonna of Sadness 哀しみのベラドンナ 1973 movie poster, version 2

[weirdlookindog]

Martin van Maële (1863–1926) - vignette from Jules Michelet’s ‘La Sorcière’, 1911 edition

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[alder-saan]

Sorry not sorry but we, French people, have the best movies and the best movie-makers ever

Kirikou et la sorcière

Princes et princesses

Dragons et princesses

Azur et Asmar

All of them by Michel Ocelot

And, obviously, THE movie that got THE Miyazaki inspired to do his:

Le roi et l'oiseau, by Paul Grimault

This one is probably my favourite movie of ALL time.

Like.

It's brilliant.

I loved it when I was a child, I still love it now for different reasons. The double meanings are incredible, the animation is SO DAMN GOOD (and the film was released in 1980) (it took over 30 years to make because the production was a disaster but the result is... MASTERPIECE)

[mininimbo]

Kiki 🧙🏻‍♀️🔮🪄 An old Kiki's Delivery Service fanart I did wayyyy back, can't even find the PSD file so here some bac resolution. Gotta love Miyazaki's work. I saw a couple new documentaries about him pop up lately, I need to check them out.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Scene from Sardou's "La Sorcière" play in the Parisian Sarah Bernhardt Theatre

French vintage postcard