La Mariée du Diable

Beautifully done movie, nice landscapes, and seems true to the late 1600's in costuming. Yes, the characters get lost in their tangled relationships which makes it harder to follow the action. But it is such a very somber theme. Let us commend the filmmakers for revisiting this painful history in their country, for this history needs to be preserved so that we never go there again! The witchcraft trials in this film are almost contemporaneous with the 1692 Salem Witch Trials in New England.

Oh - languages spoken in the film are both Finnish and Swedish. The Åland Islands are an autonomous part of Finland, wherein 95% of the Åland population speaks Swedish as their first language (so says Wikipedia). There is a lot of Swedish spoken in this film. In fact, in one scene, someone is actually ordered to speak Swedish.

Watched this on Spanish (Latin American language) Netflix, the linguistics of the translation was very good using a standard Mexican Spanish with a sophisticated vocabulary.

It is interesting to hear the folk song in pentameter which links up Hungarian with Finnish music.

The story itself is not ground-breaking but is interesting for information about Scandinavian history with well-done costumes. Worth watching if you are a history buff or interested in Scandinavia/Finland/Estonia.

Would like to see more from Finnish cinema.

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).

This is a historical recreation regarding lives lost to the accusations of witchcraft.

The setting, costumes and acting were all well done but for me the problems lay in the dramatic story surrounding the historical realities. I just thought it was a bit weak. If you are looking for a historical drama on witchcraft, this is a nce pick but the side drama is a bit less than enough to make it spectacular.

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.