Duke of Wellington pub, 119 Balls Pond Road, London, N1, 8pm
Time Out review:
'Shot in the lyrical Elvira Madigan mode,
this celebrates the 'first stirrings of adolescence' of a beautiful
young girl in a vaguely-defined Transylvanian townscape sometime in the
last century. A student of folklore and mythology could perhaps detect a
logical thread in the continuous sequence of vampires, devils, black
magic, ritual and dance that the film presents, but for most people it
will be a simpler and undemanding pleasure to sit back and be agreeably
surprised as the images unfold. There is no clearly-defined story; the
film's logic is that of the subconscious, its images those of the Gothic
fairytale and the psychiatrist's couch, and its overall effect is
stunning.'
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