Season of the Witch:

The film’s heroine is Joan Mitchell (Jan White), a suburban housewife with a successful business executive husband (Bill Thunhurst) and an almost-grown daughter (Joedda McClain). Romero sets the stage in the film's opening moments, in which he uses an effectively surreal dream sequence (clearly...

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Weitere Verfasser: Romero, George A. (RegisseurIn), White, Jan (SchauspielerIn), Laine, Raymond (SchauspielerIn), Muffly, Ann (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Arrow Video [2017]
Schriftenreihe:George Romero: Between Night and Dawn
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Zusammenfassung:The film’s heroine is Joan Mitchell (Jan White), a suburban housewife with a successful business executive husband (Bill Thunhurst) and an almost-grown daughter (Joedda McClain). Romero sets the stage in the film's opening moments, in which he uses an effectively surreal dream sequence (clearly modeled on European art films) to depict Joan's current place in life. Using simple imagery such as Joan following behind her husband through spindly tree branches that he pushes aside and allows to slap back on her or Joan being literally led on a leash and put into a dog cage, Romero establishes both the film’s political stakes and Joan's state of mind. As an escape from the increasing doldrums of her life, Joan becomes interested in witchcraft, which she learns a woman in her neighborhood practices. Unlike her boozy friend Shirley (Ann Muffly), Joan is not intrigued by witchcraft as another passing fad handed down to suburbia via the counterculture, but rather as a genuine religious experience, something into which she can invest her energy and emotions because both her husband and her daughter have become empty voids. It promises release, but also a sense of power and control over her life. [www.qnetwork.com]
Beschreibung:1 DVD-Video (90 Min.) farbig

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