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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its seventeenth-century artifice, composed frames and chilly games of power echo the film’s interest in spectacle, sexual politics and meaning hidden within elaborate visual arrangements.
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Why this pick
A fiercely theatrical historical nightmare, driven by religious hysteria, institutional corruption and provocative imagery; it shares The Baby of Mâcon’s confrontational grandeur and sense of public ritual turned monstrous.
03
Why this pick
Its formal, ceremonial presentation of power and degradation makes it a severe match for Greenaway’s coldly composed vision of bodies, authority and collective complicity.
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Why this pick
This immersive medieval world is dense with mud, violence and grotesque ceremony, offering similarly oppressive social cruelty and a relentlessly painterly, overwhelming visual design.
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Why this pick
A harshly poetic medieval vision whose fractured storytelling, ritualistic violence and tactile monochrome imagery resonate with the primal, stylised brutality of The Baby of Mâcon.
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01 / THE STORY
A town cursed with barren women and famine is saved by a miracle birth to an old, ugly woman: the Mother. Immediately afterwards, the old woman's Daughter claims to have delivered the baby herself in a miraculous births. She imprisons the Mother and begins to exploit the Baby by selling blessings to the desperate townspeople of Mâcon.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The Bishop's Son
Cosimo Medici
The Mother Superior
The Major Domo
The Father
The Mother
The Second Nun
The Daughter
