Episode 421: Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Released in 1973. Eiichi Yamamoto’s Belladonna of Sadness is an animated story of Jeanne and Jean, two poor young people in France during the Middle Ages who get married. However, when the Jean can’t pay the local ruler ten cows in tribute for their wedding, the ruler decides to take his payment out of Jeanne via by deflowering her. This sets the tone for the film and our young couple’s relationship.

Hell's Belles Heather Drain and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss the film, feminism, witchcraft, and self-empowerment.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.7	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:10.7	Meladonna.
0:13.5	Meladonna.
0:17.8	Beradonna.
0:18.8	Oh,
0:20.0	Meladonna. Oh, mehada. Bela donna Pella donna
0:22.6	Mada don't
0:24.6	Mada don't
0:25.6	Oh
0:27.6	Bermedon
0:28.6	Oh
0:30.6	Oh
0:31.6	Aught
0:36.6	Sucke and Who's who?
0:40.3	Who's from?
0:42.3	Where from?
0:44.3	I always was always your father.
0:47.3	I'm, no,
0:49.3	I'm, well,
0:50.3	you, Janna.
0:51.3	You know,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Projection Booth, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Projection Booth and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.