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Coven

6.4

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2020•1 h 32 m•Spain

Basque Country, 1609. The men of the region are at sea and Amaia takes part for the first time in the nightly dances in the woods with the other villager girls. She is only 20. At dawn, they are all arrested.

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Trojan

24/07/2025 05:13

First the positives: very very good acting, I'm Latino so is could enjoy the performances a bit more. Photography was also very good. The plot was interesting, but from here we have to go to the bad. The inquisitorial process of the Spanish Crown depicted in the film can't be further from the truth, as here just omits all the stages, guarantees, and more that were developed centuries before. I understand the movie has to make us fear the inquisitors, but in reality, accusations of witchcraft almost never ended with a sentence, the vast majority of cases were dropped. Specially because in the last 200 years of inquisition, almost no one was murdered (murder is bad, but come on, if you put your movie in a specific historical moment, get it right! This lame process could only be expected from the German Protestant inquisition, not from the law process that evolved in the Church. 5k deaths from the inquisition is really bad, but not as bad as 25k of un-judicial processes of the Protestant inquisition, as the Catholics were focused on eradicate heresy, and the protestants on the search of witches. Most witchcraft notices were dismissed by the inquisitors without starting a process as since the XIII century it was noted that such thing just didn't exist). The movie takes inspiration from the Zugarramurdi trials, where the inquisitors decided to break the rules from the Supreme Council of the Inquisition, and carried on without the proper procedure, excited by the french trials in the neighboring region. Six people were executed in this trials, breaking all inquisition rules, condemned for heresy, not witchcraft. The movie proposes a clash between truth and fantasy, and it taunts the audience to expect a psychological drama with all the little changes in narrative, but fails to deliver, deciding to side with one party. To explain myself a bit more, think about the Conscience character in Joan of Arc (1999), could have used some of that. Also, could have used a token, as the dress, to deliver a final shot to insert doubt after the final scene, but they used it as just an unimportant object. The issue is: you don't want to side with one party, you want to make people doubt! The movie of course must start with one side as the good , and the others are the bad guys, but should have made them move into the other side little by little to put doubt in the audience. Sadly, we all knew the truth throughout the entire film. Put this idea in the hands of David Fincher and an educated writer, or at least one that knows a bit of history, and we will get a masterpiece, because the idea is good, but the movie just didn't want to be great.

BEBITO

24/07/2025 05:13

It had a good start but then it became very slow, boring and hard to understand. Don't even know if they are witches or not...

Julia Ilumbe04

24/07/2025 05:13

I thought it would be another witch trials story, but it's actually a story about women empowerment and feminism in its purest forum. Acting is very good, cinematography is beautiful and plot is engaging. It is historically very accurate in depicting how these trials went and what people thought in that period of time. It is worth your time as it is not too long (1 hour and 30 minutes).

Mustapha Ndure

24/07/2025 05:13

Netflix warned for sexuell violence...what? i didnt see any or do netflix run cut versions nowadays? Good lead actor good story lame result, bad ending, the end.

Henry Desagu

24/07/2025 05:13

A new Spanish added to Netflix about the witch trials. A group of girls got accused of witchcraft. To delay the execution, they must lure the inquisitor into witnessing the Sabbath. This movie is pretty much a satire about the ridiculousness of the hysteria in the past about witches. It demonstrated the saying-is-believing effect: the more you say or do what you think others want to see or hear, the more you believe in it. As the plot progressed, I started to see how stupid and funny the old beliefs and signs that people used to identify witches. It's easy to trick and invoke curiosity from someone who blindly believe in something. Overall, a ridiculous and crazy story that poked at the extreme and blind beliefs in witchcrafts. A good refresh from the popular movie genre. 8/10

Saber Chaib

24/07/2025 05:13

We are taken to 17th (not 16th) century Spain, where the Inquisition is trying to find evidence of witchcraft among the peasantry. A group of young girl/women are found and accused. Imprisoned and tortured they concoct a bizarre mess of a story about what the witches sabbath is about. It seems that by confusing the clergy and their soldiers by ridiculous rituals they try over-power them and escape. Some have complained that "Why don't they try to argue their case?" Simply because it would be completely pointless - the whole inquisition wasn't about finding the truth, but to alleviate fears attributed to external forces (like witches). There was only one outcome of "trial" for those accused - death. Which is evident by one methods used - tow the accused to sea. If she floated she was a witch, guilty and should be killed, if she sank and drowned she was innocent. The film depicts the atmosphere of these "trials" in a believable manner, and the misfortunes the unlucky women faced. Well worth a watch - don't expect anything in the way of horror movie, it is not.

مومياء

24/07/2025 05:13

So gooood movie, brave girls, stupid men I love it

Leyluh_

24/07/2025 05:13

I don't know if everyone here understood the purpose of this movie. I think the main issue is language. The girls speak Basque. And some of the women who work in the prison where the girls were held accused of witchcraft also speak Basque. But the Inquisitors speak only Spanish. So what happens is the girls come up with a way to delay their almost certain death at the stake until the village fishermen come back from the sea and can save them. This fails and then enters the second and most difficult to understand part of the film. As the girls recreate the ritual for the inquisitor and are surrounded on the edge of the abyss, something subtle but extremely important to understand the film occurs: the women employed by the inquisitor sing a song suggesting that on a full moon night the tide is high. Soon after that the girls throw themselves into the sea. Most people must have thought they died. The inquisitor claims that they fled by flying. Both possibilities are wrong in my view. I believe that by throwing themselves at high tide the girls escaped death, thanks to the music sung by the working women of the prison. A tip that was passed on in Basque unbeknownst to the Inquisitors.

Zion_asnake🤷‍♀️

24/07/2025 05:13

Another movie that has a bad ending! Movie goes developing well to the middle and took a bad direction that screw up at the end!

Connie Ferguson

24/07/2025 05:13

Abstract Akelarre (Coven) -recent winner of five Goya awards- constitutes a powerful and lucid chronicle of the macho and misogynistic religious fanaticism of the Spanish Catholic Inquisition, of how it "adapted" reality to its prejudices, and does not hesitate to stage its comic stupidity at times , imposing an unexpected twist on the story and projecting all these towards the political present in an eloquent way but never underlined thanks to its realistic register and with a great staging. Review At the beginning of the 17th century, a group of inquisitors led by the investigating judge Rostegui (Alex Brendemühl, Dr. Mengele de Wakolda) and his Counselor (Daniel Fanego) arrived at a fishing village in the Basque Country (just one stopover in their disastrous journey ) and arrests and tortures a group of young adolescents accusing them of witchcraft, in a typical case of the investigation processes carried out by the Spanish Inquisition. The approach that the Argentine director (and co-writer) Pablo Agüero makes of this historical event is very rich, with its multiple dimensions projected onto the present. In the first place, the inquisitive duo, which combines the religious fanaticism of the investigating judge with the skeptical bureaucratic coldness of the counselor. The way in which Rostegui interprets and "adapted" reality to his prejudices in the interrogations, the ridiculous syllogisms of the dialectic in which both are sometimes trapped, have a powerful and current political resonance. And his timely quotes from the mystical poetry of Santa Teresa de Ávila are an eloquent reminder of the undeniable sexual charge that underlies. The group of adolescents, accused of participating in a Sabbath (that one) -that is, a black mass to worship Lucifer- for the simple fact of dancing in the forest, is described and acts with an adequate anachronistic register or if you want timeless. The girls, led by Ana (notably Amalia Aberasturi), somehow little contaminated by the dominant macho and misogynistic culture, display a totally rational spontaneity and put it into play to face the judgment of the inquisitors, imposing at a certain moment a turn to the gloomy of the story by exposing and taking advantage of the comic stupidity of all fanaticism. The harsh scenes of captivity, interrogations and torture are absolutely current and at the same time, in a round trip, they impose the stamp of "medieval" on all the authoritarianism, fundamentalism and political abuse that followed later. The period reconstruction and staging, with strong pictorial chiaroscuro that refer to Goya are very successful, as well as the music and songs that the prisoners sing at times are overwhelming. Special mention for the use of the off-field, which particularly in a scene, constitutes a great decision.