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Atmospheric film!
posted by catmydogsSTAFFMOD on December 25, 2021 at 10:51 AM
I came across this on vimeo. Quite an interesting film ,not too long at about 70 minutes. It’s about a man who still yearns for his dead wife, and one day he encounters someone who looks just like her. It’s a surreal, ghostly film, with a lot of evocative imagery.
Shades of Vertigo (they share the same source material, sort of), set in a very interesting ciy of Bruges, once nicknamed the Dead City.. hence, the title bruges la morte.
If you like 70’s era surreal “horror” films, check it out.
Reply by catmydogs
on December 28, 2021 at 10:03 PM
There was a 1981 film called Bruges die stille, based on the same story. A more literal adaptation but Bruges la morte evokes the atmosphere better.
A part of me wished Robert Eggers would adapt Bruges-la-morte instead of contemplating a remake of Nosferatu. He’d capture the same themes and mood but without the burden of rehashing yet again a very familar vampire tale.