Johanna 2005
- Director: Kornél Mundruczo
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Orsolya Toth
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- None of them
- Why? Sounded interesting
- Seen: 26 February 2022
A modern opera in Hungarian about
drug addiction, what could be more entertaining?
Johanna (Toth) is a drug addict. She
steals drugs from a hospital, gets caught by a doctor who keeps her there and
trains her as a nurse. Her treatments of
her patients are unorthodox, to say the least, but she cures them. She’s called
a saint by the patients and whore by her colleagues.
What a bizarre film. Long facial close-ups, long cellar-like corridors and stairways. The hospital is like something from the 19th century. It’s filmed in black and white and vivid greens. Religion, Madonna-whore, messianic sacrifice. The whole thing is surreal. I don’t know what to think. I don’t like it but it’s… different.
2 * of 5
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