The Village

  • Animation
5/1/1993
14

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A village is ruled by the church, but is filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Anyone else think the score here reminded them of the Ian Richardson House of Cards (1990)? Anyway, its a monastic retreat where people all live in harmony with each other, except - well, they dont. The priest could drink his own bodyweight in wine each day amidst a collection of nosey residents each spying on the other as they pinch some fruit, or sneak off for a clandestine bit of furious jogging, or even hoard their gold in their room. Its a bit like the seven deadly sins rolled into one theatrically shaped building. Then one of their number allows greed to get the better of him, and that sets in train a series of events that pitches this small community against one of their number whose days look numbered. Can he find a way out of the d...

        June 19, 2025

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