A real WTF of a movie. How to even describe this, the animated sequences of early Seaseme Street meets the Danish silent witchcraft documentary Haxen? At times a real visual achivment and at times little more then a film strip, this trippy 1970's anime is based on a 19th Century French history of Witchcraft. A doomed love story set in medieval Europe, this is also one of the most disturbingly sexual movies I have ever seen. Cartoon features, in stylized form, gang rap and orgies and rather phallic demons. Yet there is a certain fairytale quality to the whole presentation. A film of much juxtopostion that I'm a little flummoxed on how to rate. It's both a real artistic achievement and rather juvinale, hard to look away from and hard to watch. I'm gonna compromise and give it ***
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