by Mark Murton
Additionally Recognized As: The Satan Witch; Kiss Me, Kill Me
Directed by: Corrado Farina
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This assessment comprises some spoilers for this movie!
Synopsis: Primarily based on the favored Italian cartoon Valentina by Guido Crepax. Unusual issues begin taking place to photographer Valentina (Isabelle de Funès) after she meets a mysterious older lady calling herself Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker) and he or she comes to understand that her new acquaintance is, in reality, a witch intent on possessing her, physique and soul.
Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): After her first assembly with Baba Yaga, Valentina has a weird dream the place, dressed solely in her underwear, she is introduced earlier than a Nazi officer (performed by the movie’s director, Corrado Farina) sitting behind a small desk holding a cream coloured Persian cat.
The dream ends with Valentina dropping bare right into a bottomless pit. The following morning, Valentina relives the dream within the type of a sequence of black and white stills, together with one of many cat.
When Valentina takes up Baba Yaga’s invitation to go to her at her home she finds the lady sitting in a rocking chair cradling a cat (the identical one as in Valentina’s dream) in her arms. Later she fiddles with one in all a set of picket mystic symbols, manipulating the occasions in Valentina’s life.
After the stunning dying of a feminine pal, Valentina has one other unusual dream, this time with Baba Yaga sitting in a wicker chair on a cliff high, wearing black and holding the cat.
The dream is rife with Prussian army imagery and ends with Baba Yaga giving the order for Valentina, wearing a Prussian uniform and a part of a firing squad, to shoot Valentina’s lately deceased pal.
On the movie’s conclusion Valentina confronts Baba Yaga at her home and frees herself of her affect. Within the ultimate shot the digicam pans across the room and alights on the cat sitting on the ground subsequent to Baba Yaga’s field of picket symbols.
We couldn’t confirm if a cat seems within the comedian e-book model of this particular story, however artist Guido Crepax seems to have added cats within the strip, no less than typically.
Closing Mewsings: Cat actors aren’t actually into militaristic, sadistic imagery, however a job’s a job.
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