This film is from 1998, but I only saw it now! - Almost 24 years later!
The production quality is excellent. Can't speak to the art direction bcs I have no idea what Venice of the first half of the 16th Cent looked like.
The lighting is good. The costumes look vintage, and the background score is apt.
The story telling is gripping.
But the best part of this film is the dialogues. I feel like watching the film again just to record the amazing one-liners.
It is, at its heart, a love story. A love story that dealt with the social and political truths of its time, and in my book, emerged victorious. A story that takes you back in time where a woman faced religious courts that could burn one at the stake, and a time in which every woman was condemned to eternal lovelessness. A time in which men secured favours through courtesans.
It is a story about courtesans. About a group that has (almost) everything - access to education, deportment, high officials and intellectual conversations, lovemaking, financial freedom. Therefore, society must take something away from them. Something so important that women would want to avoid their fate. So, they take respect away. From Memoirs of a Geisha to Dangerous Beauty, the stories of women are the same.
Recommendation: NSFW. Great story telling. No unnecessary nudity.
2 comments:
Women have never had it easy!
yeah. They dont.
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