If you're looking for a CGI-heavy horror-fest, this isn't it.
What you do get is a haunting, beautifully filmed story with some outstanding performances, that deliberately leaves a big question unanswered.
Amaia Aberasturi totally bewitched me. Her performance is a beautiful mixture of innocence and sensuality.
The other girls are amazing also, their characters fluctuating between seemingly wicked lasciviousness and wrongly-accused innocence.
I found this dichotomy to be the soul of this film.
Àlex Brendemühl is superb as the inquisitor.
He plays a man who is part of the evil that was the inquisition, and yet somehow evokes sympathy for his character, who at heart is a seeker of truth and clearly harbours doubts about the task he performs.
I loved the depiction of the Sabbath.
Despite what you read in other reviews here, I particularly liked the ending and it's openness to interpretation.
Did they fall? Did they fly?
Were they Brujas it not?
I love that this film leaves those questions open, I think it's what makes this film so good.
What you do get is a haunting, beautifully filmed story with some outstanding performances, that deliberately leaves a big question unanswered.
Amaia Aberasturi totally bewitched me. Her performance is a beautiful mixture of innocence and sensuality.
The other girls are amazing also, their characters fluctuating between seemingly wicked lasciviousness and wrongly-accused innocence.
I found this dichotomy to be the soul of this film.
Àlex Brendemühl is superb as the inquisitor.
He plays a man who is part of the evil that was the inquisition, and yet somehow evokes sympathy for his character, who at heart is a seeker of truth and clearly harbours doubts about the task he performs.
I loved the depiction of the Sabbath.
Despite what you read in other reviews here, I particularly liked the ending and it's openness to interpretation.
Did they fall? Did they fly?
Were they Brujas it not?
I love that this film leaves those questions open, I think it's what makes this film so good.