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The Baby of Mâcon
Drama, History
In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to confrontational art cinema that uses grotesque religious theater, metafiction, and ritualized cruelty to expose the corruption of authority.
- Tone
- surreal, bleak, satirical
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- religious power, exploitation, spectacle, bodily violence, institutional cruelty
- Setting
- seventeenth-century, theatrical church spaces and aristocratic Italian interiors
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