Warning Contains Spoilers
[Seen as part of the Overlook Film Festival]
When Cinderellas asshole is one of the lesser impactful moments of a film for me, you know something wild is happening.
Chisel and hammer nose job
Eyelashes sewn to lids
Meat cleaver to the toes
Multiple full frontal hog shots
Plenty of vomit
And the tapeworm, oh the tapeworm.
Disgusting and perverse in all the right ways, Emilie Blichfeldt’s feature debut sky rockets her into the canon of the beautiful grotesque. Lush depictions of decadence play across the debased desire to compete in the horrible game of sexual commerce. Beauty standards as enforced patriarchal tools for the buying and selling of daughters to nobles for the ensured economic stability of the family. Blichfeldt recognizes the timeless nature of these tales and sets it distinctly in the forever land of fable. Smartly satirizing a sick world with a blend of body and beauty horror. Cinema for the ages right here.
