The Sitges Festival 2015 opened yesterday Friday with the Robert Eggers film 'The Witch', finally a worthy start for an edition of the Catalan contest.
It is worrying that the best opening in recent years at the Sitges Film Festival is in which it has been decided to dispense with a Spanish film. In previous years titles such as 'El cuerpo', 'Grand Piano' or 'Rec 4' left the public quite cold., which are not at the height of an inauguration.
This year the genre contest begins with a title of those that give prestige to the festival, everything is said on this occasion the organization was safe after the passage of the film through the Sundance Festival where he won the Grand Jury Prize and the award for best director and Austin Festival where he won the Horror Jury Prize.
And it is that 'The Witch' is a very worked horror film from the point of view of the direction and the script, but what shines the most is in the atmosphere that Robert Eggers with cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and composer Mark Korven They manage to move us directly to New England in 1630.
"A New England Folktale" We can read under the title of the film and the film really is faithful to this phrase since evokes the stories of the time around witchcraft and religious fury that we can see in the protagonists, which go hand in hand in 'The Witch'.
Rating - 8/10