Flesh+Blood
In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors--commoners.
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"I happened to catch this 1985 film on cable. I'd never heard of it before, and found only a few reviews for it on the movie review query engine. That's a shame, because this is one of the most original of the swords/knights/princesses genre movies I've seen. Technically, it's not a medieval tale, as it's set in the 16th Century, but with the exception of some innovative period weapons, including an exploding barrel with a long fuse that sometimes goes off at the wrong time, the atmosphere is very much out of the dark ages. While the costumes, scenery and plot (a gang o..."
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The movie was director Paul Verhoeven's reaction to the many movies that, in his view, overly romanticized the Middle Ages. He wanted to show it as a period where brutality, disease, poverty, and hardship were common, and a natural death was a rare thing.
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In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors--commoners.