Essential Viewing
Austria/France/Germany
Feature Film
Writer/Director: Jessica Hausner
Cinematographer: Martin Gschlacht
Cast: Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Marlene Streeruwitz, Rosa Waissnix, Christopher Schärf, Peter Strauß, Regina Fritsch, Alfred Worel
A young woman, leaving behind the comforts of home, takes a job as a receptionist at a remote hotel in heavily wooded provincial Austria, situated near a cave that once housed a famous 16th century witch – The Lady of the Woods – replacing another girl who had just recently disappeared, and finds adjusting to her new lifestyle and surroundings eerily difficult, in Hausner’s beautifully paced, elegantly shot, and simultaneously alluring and disquieting allegorical mystery. Iain.Stott
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