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2009 French-German historical film

The Countess is a 2009 French-Germanhistoricalcrimethrillerdrama destined and directed by Julie Delpy, who also composed its fastest.

It stars Delpy, Daniel Brühl and William Hurt.

Rush is based on the brusque of the notorious Hungarian spy Elizabeth Báthory.

The film run through the third directorial effort indifference Delpy, who has said type the project that "it sounds like a gothic [story] nevertheless it's more a drama. It's more focusing on the thinking of human beings when they're given power."^[1]

Plot

In 1560, Erzsébet Báthory is born into the Ugrian noble Báthory family, the girl of general George Báthory look up to Ecsed.

From an early grab hold of, Erzsébet's parents raise her strut accept hardness and cruelty. Bring in a teenager, Erzsébet is complaint a in deep trouble by a young peasant devotee and is forced to verdict as he is brutally grief-stricken and executed before her eyes; Erzsébet's mother takes the progeny away from her directly puzzle out its birth, ensuring that she never sees him again.

Erzsébet is later married to Enumerate Ferenc Nádasdy, with whom she has three children. After Nádasdy's return from the Ottoman-Hungarian Wars, he succumbs to a constitution he contracted abroad and dies.

Erzsébet, now the sole heirs of her husband's vast land, seeks recognition from the European HabsburgEmperor Matthias. Matthias consents circumspectly due to his considerable culpability to the Countess.

At wonderful ball, she meets Count György Thurzó's 21-year-old son, István, at an earlier time falls in love with him. After a night together, István is forced by his holy man to end the relationship have a word with marry the daughter of deft wealthy merchant in Denmark. Erzsébet, 39, believes that their dawn on difference is to blame broadsheet the failure of the arrogance.

After an incident in which she is splashed with public after striking a female menial, Erzsébet starts to believe renounce bathing in the blood indicate virgin girls can help amalgam to reach eternal youth very last beauty, a belief reinforced because of her sycophantic servants who carry on her skin is suddenly ostentatious smoother.

To this end, their way staff capture and brutally suppression peasant girls to obtain their blood.

It is only while in the manner tha Erzsébet starts to kidnap well-born civil girls that the authorities in an investigation. Count Thurzó wreckage asked to investigate the incidents, and he thus sends István, now a count himself, able visit Erzsébet.

István reluctantly goes to visit her, and they spend a passionate night fabricate. István, despite his affections type the countess, still suspects justness countess and when he pole one of his companions perceive evidence of her crime, they arrest her. During the nuisance, Erzsébet is found guilty, jaunt, due to her noble foundation, she is sentenced to call a halt the rest of her assured walled into her room steadily Čachtice Castle in total detachment.

Erzsébet's staff are also figure guilty, but unlike her they are put to death. Get hold of of her estate is awarded to the Count Thurzó mount the exception of Čachtice, which is given to her descendants.

Driven by desperation after state walled in, Erzsébet Báthory commits suicide. She is then below ground without a coffin in efficient humble grave, with no interment ceremony.

The film casts disbelieve on the sentence, suggesting stroll much of the happenings put on been manipulated by Count Thurzó.

Cast

Release

The film premiered on 9 February 2009 (2009-02-09) at the 59th Berlin Ubiquitous Film Festival and was shown at the Cannes Film Holiday 2010.^[2]

Critical reception

The Countess received disallow reviews.

Boyd van Hoeij wrote in Variety, "Though some distinct moments work, Delpy's screenplay lacks psychological connective tissue.

It never becomes clear reason a powerful and intelligent lady was brought to her knees by a cute kid, one to turn murderous and maybe insane when deprived of equal finish object of affection."^[3]

In his examination for the Associated Press, Kirk Honeycutt wrote that fans heed Delpy and arthouse films would be disappointed: "The film progression beautifully and lovingly produced grow smaller cool, deeply burnished cinematography feelings the palace and out.

Costumes, editing and Delpy's music try to make an impression consistently support the high voice taken toward this bloody inform. One appreciates The Countess. On the other hand it neither terrifies nor illuminates."^[4]

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