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- Title
Culture Wars Medieval and Modern in Le Moine et la sorcière.
- Authors
Benson, Ed
- Abstract
The article presents a critical analysis of the movie "Le Moine et la sorciere." The author suggests ways of viewing the film "Le Moine et la sorciere," that will help to see the rationalization of storytelling in the medieval countryside as prefiguring the birth pangs of France, and of the modern world order. As medieval Europe began to emerge From the Carolingian world, the aristocracy discovered how far from anything it recognized were the cultural references of those who farmed their lands. The film shows the persistence and power of Freudian reconstruction. The first people seen in the movie are a woman dressed in a homespun tunic in the foreground and a man in a heavy black wool cloak approaching in the background. The woman's humble clothes contrast with the embroidered dress of the woman in the prologue and the rich but plain cloak of the monk. The movie begins (after the prologue) with the forest woman Eldamere (Christine Boisson) lifting a basket of herbs off Saint Guinefort's grave.
- Subjects
FRANCE; LE moine et la sorciere (Film); MOTION pictures; BOISSON, Christine; CLOTHING &; dress; MONKS
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1999, Vol 29, Issue 1/2, p56
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/flm.1999.a395988