BLACK FIELD (2010) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Vardis Marinakis
Sofia Georgovassili, Christos Passalis, Despoina Kourti
An unusual period drama about a wounded soldier who comes under the care of some nuns in an isolated convent in 17th-century Greece. The setup's a lot like Don Siegel's "The Beguiled", but if you think that's what's going on here, guess again. Moody and mysterious, with one of the best (and longest) down-in-the-dirt lovemaking scenes ever, done with no real nudity but a lot of grunting and moaning and yowling, a primal act of longing, brutality, terror, discovery, resistance, acceptance and pure animal passion. The ending's ambiguous, but there's a lot of ambiguity in this movie. It's kind of what the whole thing's about. See for yourself.
