Tulen morsian

Let's face it, movie reviews are all subjective. There is no such thing as an objective movie review because it's all about the tastes and they differ. There's no use dissing anyone's opinions.

This movie has high production values on every aspect but still it manages to be very sloppy. Its pacing is non-existent, it doesn't engage and touch when it should. It's also very hard to like the main character after she causes great pain to other woman. It's hard to have sympathy on that character when it was supposed to be the most likeable person in the film to sympathize with. In my opinion her fate was well earned.

Also the acting is mediocre, even spoken finnish is difficult to follow because of the strong swedish accent. I needed subtitles to make sense of what they were talking about. Better idea would have been to make them all speak swedish.

I was so happy that i never went to see this film on the cinema and paid nothing to watch it. It was such a waste of time that i was disappointed. Usually finnish movies aren't very good. Only Finns keep fussing about them while they don't usually get widely distributed (exception is Kaurismaki films).

Devil's Bride, or Tulen morsian in Finnish, is based on the witch hunts that took place on the Åland Islands in the 17th century. A young woman named Anna Eriksdotter is an apprentice to a local herb woman. Things start to unravel when she falls for a handsome fisherman, who just happens to be married. And at the same time a new judge is sent to town to bring the wrath and fear of God into the countryfolk. And he almost immediately starts lashing against the old pagan habits followed by many. Including those of Valpuri, the aforementioned herb woman and Anna's adoptive mother.

Tulen morsian shines as a movie because of its commitment to the source material and its willingness to stick to real events. All the judged girls are named after real women, whose names can be found in the church records. The ending is also quite bleak, though handled with care and given a twist that makes it a bit more bearable, while in no way ruining it. The technical aspects also work rather well and it's a beautiful period drama, especially given the relatively modest budget.

Unfortunately, there are some flaws. Some of the actors are not quite as good as you'd hope, but that is to be expected, given that Finland and Sweden don't have that large of a pool to draw from. The bigger problem is the story, half of which seems to have ended up on the cutting room floor. There are more than a few story lines that are started but which are never finished. The relationship between Anna and the judge, for example. Goes absolutely nowhere.

Still, I'd recommend seeing this if the source material and the general idea interest you. It's well-made and kept together reasonably well, plus the main characters are very good.

Men are so crappy at this epoch! so he just raped her but who is executed? a woman because she saved many life with plants and she accused of witchcraft?? How rude ! oh wait... there are still lots of dicks...

What is certain is sonly one thing that the review by moxmich is the worst movie review in the hisrory of cinema. Who is he a new prophet and new evangelist in the movie industry? It is not his feelings and procincial tastes what someone expects of a review, but an objective analysis of the movie. It is his crooked viewpoint that prevails in that poisonous review. I'm neither Scandinavian nor American so know that noone goes to the movies with a scratch pad to delete according to my taste those things I don't like of a movie. The worst movie my colleagues and I had watched in a long time was, 2015 Secret in their Eyes, portraying black African with more power than D Trump trying to avoid the seduction of two aging matrons, the soporific multiple facial lifts of the petrified masks of Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman. Those are the type of movies moxmich salivate for. Give us a break.

I was lucky to watch this movie with subtitles in Finnish ( I'm Finnish speaking), otherwice I would not understand anything, so bad was recording of the voices. Acting was close to embarishment, tempo of actions was as poor as it possiple can get. Rubbish from start to end. No worth to watch, sorry.