She Is Conann [aka Conann] (2023)
November 10, 2024 7:12 PM - Subscribe
In a bleak fantasy world, a young woman becomes a barbarian when her mother is killed by a savage horde; she matures into a fearsome killer whose adventures lead into other realms, and beyond life and death.
This is a deeply strange film that has very little to do with the work of Robert E. Howard, but does stand as a weird subversion/semi-remake of John Milius' film, and incorporates Red Sonja from the larger Conan mythos. Plotwise, if you've read about Nick Cave's unmade screenplay for Gladiator 2, this feels a bit like that, as well as Takashi Miike's Izo, maybe a little of Derek Jarman's Jubilee, but generally this is a weird, occasionally (mostly unrealistically) gory art film. I liked it!
This is a deeply strange film that has very little to do with the work of Robert E. Howard, but does stand as a weird subversion/semi-remake of John Milius' film, and incorporates Red Sonja from the larger Conan mythos. Plotwise, if you've read about Nick Cave's unmade screenplay for Gladiator 2, this feels a bit like that, as well as Takashi Miike's Izo, maybe a little of Derek Jarman's Jubilee, but generally this is a weird, occasionally (mostly unrealistically) gory art film. I liked it!
Mandico is an international treasure (as is his longtime collaborator Elina Löwensohn) and this is one of his best, as well as the only Conan adaptation that in any way gets close to the strangeness of Howard's stories, even if this veers pretty far away from any sort of faithful homage.
His latest feature Dragon Dilatation is partially a remake-at-one-remove /fictionalised 'making of' Conann with added metacommentary which enriches the experience enormously. Not sure if distribution is secured yet though.
posted by remembrancer at 5:43 AM on November 11, 2024 [2 favorites]
His latest feature Dragon Dilatation is partially a remake-at-one-remove /fictionalised 'making of' Conann with added metacommentary which enriches the experience enormously. Not sure if distribution is secured yet though.
posted by remembrancer at 5:43 AM on November 11, 2024 [2 favorites]
ooooh i was excited when i saw the trailer and forgot to watch it
posted by kokaku at 5:49 PM on November 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by kokaku at 5:49 PM on November 12, 2024 [1 favorite]
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