Sorceress (French with English Subtitles)
by Suzanne Schiffman
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Actor: Catherine Frot, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet, Raoul Billery, Tcheky KaryoDirector: Suzanne Schiffman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Unknown)
Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1987-08-30
Studio: Lara Classics, Inc.
Movie Reviews of Sorceress (French with English Subtitles)
Movie Review: Illuminating story of values
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie. It's old, in French and subtitled, but so well done for it's day. It's based on a true story, the social challenges faced at the time: the beliefs of the Church versus the beliefs of the local people. Whereas the local people did not think the beliefs were in conflict, the Church did. The 13th century Dominican friar is sent by the Pope to find heretics throughout the land and he finds a woman in a local village who heals people with herbs and declares her a heretic, sentencing her to burning as a witch.
There are a few twists and turns and in the end the friar realizes his own humanity and can relate to that of the local herb healer. I won't spoil the ending, but it's an inspiring film.
Summary of Sorceress (French with English Subtitles)
SORCERESS tells the suspenseful tale of how the Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon, a Church inquisitor, comes to a small French village searching for heretics and encounters the beautiful, mysterious forest woman Elda. The villagers respect Elda for her prowess as a healer. They have faith in her knowledge of medicinal plants and herbs and her use of ancient rituals to cure the sick. But Etienne, driven by an inquisitor's vocation to purge his Christian flock of false beliefs, suspects heresy. Fascinated by Elda yet knowing that the punishment for a heretic is to be burned at the stake, the conflicted cleric cannot help spying on the pagan rites Elda practices in the forest. The two of them become entwined in a confrontation between communal custom and Church dogma, between human sympathy and institutional authority.Drama DVD Video
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