Word: sorceresses
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...Sorceress...
THIS naturalism is tinged with mysticism, largely because of the reserved, intriguing air Christine Boisson gives to her part as Elda, the forest-woman and the 'sorceress' of the movie's title. She functions as the conscience of the village, somehow above the women she treats so lovingly. She has almost too much consciousness for an illiterate woman of the forest in 13th century France...
THIS intertwining of the personal and the political--crises of faith in the Church's canon and the cultural canon--are the core of Sorceress. The movie is effective as a political statement because its characters are eminently real people, grappling with concrete, emotional problems and not just abstract representations of the political hierarchy...
Elda, and the generations of European women she represents, created a powerful personal creed. She was an avid healer, a caring, soothing presence in the face of poverty and a demeaning social position. And it is her experience--the experience of the nurturing, intelligent and misunderstood woman--which Sorceress chronicles eloquently...
...Sorceress...