Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
SWORN VIRGIN
Vergine giurata
Synopsis
Hana is growing up in an archaic alpine landscape in Albania where the old codes and traditional gender roles prevail. She escapes the fate of a wife and servant when, in accordance with the Kanun, the traditional Albanian law, she pledges herself to life-long virginity.
Synopsis
Hana is growing up in an archaic alpine landscape in Albania where the old codes and traditional gender roles prevail. She escapes the fate of a wife and servant when, in accordance with the Kanun, the traditional Albanian law, she pledges herself to life-long virginity.
Our take
Layering vulnerability and stoicism, Alba Rohrwacher is magnetic in Laura Bispuri’s formidable debut. Shedding light on an obscure Albanian ritual where young women surrender their femininity, this decades-spanning family saga muses on gender fluidity and the possibility of personal liberation.