Post by moviemouth on Feb 15, 2018 6:43:41 GMT
Here is a little bit I found out about the movie after watching it.
When it was released in England in 1993, this film unleashed a torrent of public outrage comparable to those following the release of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange or Jean Luc Godard’s “Je vous salue, Marie!” The film was so poorly received at Cannes that it was excluded from the main competition. Afterward, it found no distribution in America; no one would touch it. The controversy stemmed from the film’s depiction of Christianity, another one of Greenaway’s scathing attacks on the church’s greed.
An overall disturbing film, one can understand why its artistic merits have been overshadowed by its shocking content. Nonetheless, The Baby of Mâcon marks one of Greenaway’s most successful attempts at blurring the boundary between “reality” and theater. The action of the story is supposed to be taking place within a play but the delineation between actor and audience member, and reality and fiction, is constantly blurred. It is also notable for the strength of its biblical allegory and, of course, Julia Ormond’s performance as The Daughter — one so powerful as to be a stand-out among any in Greenaway’s oeuvre.