A few years ago, filmmakers Emma Schwartz and Mary Robertson remember taking note of video compilations from old Dan Schneider series that showed children and young teens “enacting scenes that are arguably sexual in nature.”
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William Earl administrator The Austrian writers and directors behind pitch-black horror hits “Goodnight Mommy” and “The Lodge” are bringing their newest vision to America. “The Devil’s Bath,” the latest film from Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, is set to have its North American premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and then head to Shudder for a June 28 streaming debut. The film had its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale, and was recently nominated for 11 Austrian Film Awards, including Best Film.
The official logline reads, “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.” Franz and Fiala spoke to Variety about the genesis of the story, the challenges of creating an authentic period piece and why they love telling tales with such dark themes. What was your inspiration in researching and telling a story like this? Fiala: It was a happy accident.
We came across the podcast “This American Life,” and there was an episode about loopholes with historian Kathy Stuart. She was talking about a loophole in history, how it was a way of committing suicide that religion wouldn’t forbid, and that’s by killing someone else. Before your execution, you could still repent your sins and go to heaven.
So that’s what a lot of people did, and it was shocking to us that we had never heard about this phenomenon that was widely common all over Europe. So that was the first inspiration. Franz
.A few years ago, filmmakers Emma Schwartz and Mary Robertson remember taking note of video compilations from old Dan Schneider series that showed children and young teens “enacting scenes that are arguably sexual in nature.”
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, in the 2000s.The clips featured then-teenagers like Ariana Grande and Jamie Lynn Spears engaging in acts that appeared to be of an “arguably sexual” manner, Robertson, the founder of the production studio Maxine Productions, tells me. In one, Grande pours water on herself while laying upside down in a bed.