H ana doda is a student in 1980s tirana who reads emily dickinson. Mar 30, 2016 trailer for sworn virgin, starring alba rohrwacher and lars eidinger hana doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being a wife and a servant, a future imposed on women in the harsh mountains of albania. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. It is in italian and albanian with english subtitles. Apr 22, 2016 sworn virgin synopsis an albanian woman alba rohrwacher who according to her regions custom has lived as a man for most of her life wants to reclaim her sexual identity. Sworn virgin is a 2015 internationally coproduced drama film directed by laura bispuri.
Elvira dones novel, sworn virgin, intrigued me as soon as i started reading the introduction. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the sworn virgin. There, he explores the unexpected pleasures of attraction and the body and decides to abandon mark, rediscovering herself himself as hana, to become a new and liberated person. Hana, under her male identity as mark, has now also found that it is time to leave her albanian home and goes to find her sister by adoption in rome. The film obliges viewers to puzzle out the nature of the sworn virgin. Laura bispuri tells the story of how a young woman becomes a man in order to escape from the destiny set in stone for women by the patriarchal archaisms of deepest albania. Apr 16, 2015 paris strand releasing has acquired all u. They also went there earlier, in 2009, where they interviewed lali the first time russia today 2009. Cut off linguistically because while italian is undoubtedly the countrys most widely spoken foreign language due to the fact that italy is well. Sworn virgin 2016 stream and watch online moviefone.
This can only be counted a virtue by those who count obscurity and. It is a journey inside the complexity of womens universe. Watchtower 2012, angels fall 2004, war story 2014, when the night 2011, in memory of me 2007. A sequence where hana has all of her hair lopped off makes explicit reference to the passion of joan of arc, which figures into godards film, and hanas name rhymes with that of karinas.
More than a decade since their last meeting, mark and lilas friendship is speckled with lingering bitterness and a mutual disappointment. Published on jul 11, 2016 sworn virgin follows a young woman named hana who lives in an albanian village ruled by men, and she takes an oath of eternal virginity to live as a sworn virgin. The sworn virgin is believed to be the only formal, socially defined trans masculine role in europe. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th berlin international film festival. The concept being referred to in the title of sworn virgin, a debut. Apr 25, 2016 as sworn virgin begins, mark leaves his lifelong albanian village of ragam for rome, italy, to find lila flonja kodheli, his longestranged sister. This can only be counted a virtue by those who count obscurity and bafflement as artistic assets. Thirtyodd years into a life lived entirely in a remote northern albanian. Sworn virgin on dvd 7122673529 from strand releasing.
Rent sworn virgin 2016 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Understated and authentic sworn virgin starring alba. But the phlegm of posttruths shouldnt get caught in our throats, let alone our eyes and ears, because films from. Shot in intimate handheld style, sworn virgin is at least in part a film. Beautiful and uplifting, sworn virgin follows hana who, to escape the prospect of wifely servitude in her albanian village, takes an. Staring llire vinca celaj, bruno shllaku, flonja kodheli and emily ferratello. She takes an oath of eternal virginity to live as a sworn virgin by living as a man named mark. Italian filmmaker laura bispuri made a film based on that novel in 2015.
Released april 22nd, 2016, sworn virgin stars alba rohrwacher, flonja kodheli, luan jaha, emily ferratello the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 27 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains. This movie based on a book by elvira dones depicts a society with very strict rules for its women. Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of albania, hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modernday milan. Sworn virgin vergine giurata director laura bispuri with star alba rohrwacher photo.
Sworn virgin follows a young woman named hana who lives in an. April 21, 2016 sworn virgin, the debut feature from the italian director laura bispuri, concerns a fading custom in remote albania, where some women have sworn off marriage, sex and. Had she been born in albania today, says the 78yearold sworn virgin, who made an oath of celibacy in return for the right to live and rule her family as a. Apr 22, 2016 april 21, 2016 sworn virgin, the debut feature from the italian director laura bispuri, concerns a fading custom in remote albania, where some women have sworn off marriage, sex and. Mar 29, 2015 a film by larua bispuri synopsis hana doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being a wife and a servant, a future imposed on women in the harsh mountains of albania. Understated and authentic sworn virgin starring alba rohrwacher. Vergine giurata di laura bispuri, con alba rohrwacher in concorso al festival berlino, dal 19 marzo al cinema. Hana has taken an even more drastic step and chosen the way of the tradition of burmesha sworn virgin, renouncing her female identity to live as a man. Instead, her growing awareness of her own sexuality is given all the time it needs to emerge in a completely natural way, which makes for a quiet film without. Sworn virgin 2016 official trailer sneak peek that. Its an especially daring choice for sworn virgin, a film that could easily insist on accessing the.
Sworn virgin is being presented as part of the 30th bfi flare london lgbt film festival, and it premiered last year in the official competition of the berlin film festival. Annekatrin titze laura bispuris sworn virgin vergine giurata won this years tribeca film festival nora ephron prize. Sworn virgin follows a young woman named hana who lives in an albanian village ruled by men, and she takes an oath of eternal virginity to live as a sworn virgin becoming mark, so she can live free as a man. Her debut feature stars alba rohrwacher in a complex portrayal of life as hana and mark with flonja kodheli as her sister lila. Watch sworn virgin online vimeo on demand on vimeo. Sworn virgin 2016 official trailer sneak peek by david duprey on apr 14, 2016 an albanian woman takes lifelong oath to be a sworn virgin and essentially becomes a man in her village until she visits her sister in milan and longs to explore life and love as her true self. Rent sworn virgin 2016 starring alba rohrwacher and flonja kodheli on dvd and bluray. The film s story has three strands, one presenttense and set in italy, two set in albania in years past. Strand releasing picks up tribeca player sworn virgin. But promises are hard to keep and love may find her whether she wants it to or not.
She was a trainee policewoman something almost unheard of at the time with a penchant for football likewise and, at their first meeting, wore a violet and emerald shell suit, the height of albanian mens. Sworn to virginity and living as men in albania the new. Burrnesha are women who take a vow of chastity and wear male clothing in order to live as men in patriarchal northern albanian society, kosovo and montenegro. The last sworn virgin of montenegro world news the guardian. The sworn virgin is the story of eleanora, a woman who chooses to live as a sworn virgin, a tradition that will allow her to basically be the master of her own destiny and be in control of her own life as long as she keeps to her promise. The last sworn virgin of montenegro world news the. Jul 12, 2016 beautiful and uplifting, sworn virgin follows hana who, to escape the prospect of wifely servitude in her albanian village, takes an. Trailer for sworn virgin, starring alba rohrwacher and lars eidinger hana doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being a wife and a servant, a future imposed on women in the harsh mountains of albania.
Celebrating great art amid the transition to political catastrophe can feel like, to paraphrase the title of poet ocean vuongs recent collection, a moonlit sky with exit wounds. There, he explores the unexpected pleasures of attraction and the. Becoming a man just to exist by benedicte prot 12022015 berlin 2015. Movies like sworn virgin if you like sworn virgin you are looking for touching, atmospheric and psychological movies about with starting over, hidden identity, hopes, introspection, disorder, sexuality and gender themes of drama genre shot in italy or switzerland. Mark doda, a man of few words and many fags, lives alone in the cursed mountains of the north in the family stone tower or kulla. In a rugged, impoverished world where women are treated as chattel, some escape their hard, genderdetermined fate by claiming the status of sworn virgins before a dozen. With alba rohrwacher, emily ferratello, lars eidinger, flonja kodheli. As it is, the film obliges viewers to puzzle out the nature of the sworn virgin tradition, and even at the tales end, it may not be clear. The youngest sworn virgin encountered by the researcher antonia young in the 1990s was a 22yearold from the small town of bajram curri. Sworn virgin synopsis an albanian woman alba rohrwacher who according to her regions custom has lived as a man for most of her life wants to reclaim her sexual identity. Surprises fans with radically different new cover for 2016s glory. Apr 14, 2016 sworn virgin 2016 official trailer sneak peek by david duprey on apr 14, 2016 an albanian woman takes lifelong oath to be a sworn virgin and essentially becomes a man in her village until she visits her sister in milan and longs to explore life and love as her true self. Mar 02, 2016 the sworn virgin is the story of eleanora, a woman who chooses to live as a sworn virgin, a tradition that will allow her to basically be the master of her own destiny and be in control of her own life as long as she keeps to her promise. Sworn virgin by laura bispuri official international trailer hd.
First, it was written by a little known albanian writer in the english speaking world, from a country that has been closed to international attention for so long due to the political system and its very different language. Marks struggle to find a true identity is the drive of the film, and the picture ends up being more of a look at feminism in albanian than anything else. Years later, restless and feeling imprisoned by his choice, mark leaves for italy to visit his sister and family. Sworn virgin presents as a transgender narrative, following mark alba rohrwacher assigned as female at birth as mark leaves hermetic life and enters modern milan society. F rom clayton dillards introduction to slant magazines top 25 films of 2016. The concept being referred to in the title of sworn virgin, a debut feature by italian writerdirector laura bispuri, belongs to the traditional culture of albania, where some of the film takes place.
According to marina warner, the sworn virgin s true sex will never again, on pain of death, be alluded to either in her presence or out of it. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Jun 23, 2008 had she been born in albania today, says the 78yearold sworn virgin, who made an oath of celibacy in return for the right to live and rule her family as a man, she would choose womanhood. Sworn virgin 2016 after posing as a man for 14 years, a woman alba rohrwacher travels from albania to italy to reconnect with her estranged sister. Similar practices occurred in some societies of indigenous peoples of the americas. Click here for more information, or watch the film trailer below. The film obliges viewers to puzzle out the nature of the sworn virgin tradition, and even at the tales end, it may not be clear. Jonida who is entirely italianised should go along with the pretence. To a lesser extent, the practice exists, or has existed, in other parts of the western balkans, including bosnia, dalmatia croatia, serbia and northern macedonia. Apr 17, 2016 given its nearly episodic structure, formal choices, and similar thematic inquiries, sworn virgin suggests an unofficial remake of vivre sa vie. Laura bispuris moving, fiery sworn virgin comes in a recent tradition of cinematic meditations on gender as a form of identity like tomboy and all about my mother, but her film is, above all, about the privilege of access. Though the fear that the films walking dead can turn violent at any second is completely. For mark a revelatory alba rohrwacher, changing his gender identity was about personal freedom, but its not about selfexpression or.
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