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HorreurAnnée1993Durée1h 30mIMDb5.8

Bedevil

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Three Australian stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick (Jack Charles), an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby (Tracey Moffatt) and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord (Lex Marinos) has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years.

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Casting

TM

Tracey Moffatt

Director

Diana Davidson

Shelley

Jack Charles

Rick

BK

Ben Kennedy

Rick at 11 years

KA

Kenneth Avery

Rick at 7 years

DB

Daphne Byers

Rick's Sister

LP

Lavinia Phillips

Rick's Sister

DM

Desarae Morgan

Rick's Sister

HM

Haley McGovern

Blonde Child

JH

Jordan Hammond

Blonde Child

GS

Greg Stolzenheim

Blonde Children's Father

KC

Ken Canning

Rockabilly

IP

Imbi Pilt

Rockabilly's Girlfriend

BC

Benjamin Collard

Swamp Ghost

RM

Ric MacClure

Rick's Uncle

CW

Catherine Wright

Young Shelley

WB

Warren Bell

Construction Juggler

DF

Dom Ferry

Construction Juggler

AT

Ashley Todd Le May

Construction Juggler

TM

Tracey Moffatt

Writer

Commentaires

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AbuminyaRMay 29, 2023

source: Bedevil

Ewurakua Yaaba YankeyMay 23, 2023

Tracy Moffatt is an Aboriginal visual artist, and her film is an impressionist artwork, as well as a collection of three stories. She tells three stories about different groups of Aboriginal people and Whites, set in a surreal, stage-set version of Queensland, with pastel colours suffused with nostalgia. All the stories involve the supernatural, with strange inexplicable forces inhabiting certain places. In the first story concerns a young Aboriginal boy, who is dragged into a swamp by a strange creature. He escapes but remains haunted by the experience. Later on, a white family build a cinema over the swamp, where an American GI drowned in the war. The second story concerns a family who live beside a railway track, where a ghost train runs, and the ghost of a blind girl, killed by a train, wanders. The third story concerns a Greek family who live in North Queensland, and a couple of young Torres Strait islanders who die mysteriously and whose ghosts dance in the house opposite. All three stories were shot in a studio, though the film includes some shots from other parts of Queensland. This was the first feature film by an Aboriginal woman director, and is interesting, although the stories are very mannered, oblique and even absurdist.

Lamar May 23, 2023

The first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman - Tracey Moffatt, who also made Lip, a mashup of black servants in Hollywood movies talking back to their bosses - BeDevil was inspired by the director's childhood. The first story "Mr. Chuck" is about an Australian boy haunted by the spirit of a drowned American soldier, with the experience seen through the eyes of the boy as a man looking back on his youth and a white woman whose family colonzied Australia. And it's presented as a series of documentary interviews, heightening the strangeness of it all. In "Choo Choo Choo Choo, Moffat plays a character who might even be herself as a train continues to haunt a family as it runs on invisible tracks through Queensland, even decades later. The last story is "Lovin' the Spin I'm In," during which a doomed couple tries to leave their community behind to escape racism, their death ends up trapping them in an eternal dance. BeDevil has been compared to Kwaidan and that's an apt comparison. It feels like it came from a darker world than our own to explain and help us get past the darkness in our own place. Please try and seek it out, as it's an amazing film.

IamlucyedetMay 23, 2023

BeDevil (1993) addresses the marginalization of Aboriginal Australians in the events, symbolism, and media hype surrounding the bicentenary of European settlement in Australia in 1988. Tracey Moffatt challenges the racial stereotypes by gearing a political process of reform and self-recognition though her postmodernist 'identity search'-driven work aiming at appropriation of hegemonic spectacle. BeDevil disrupts the hegemony of the pure original canon that excluded Aboriginal Australians from the mainstream. This sort of exclusion practice is a known phenomenon worldwide, more so happens in the post-colonial Third World countries like Pakistan and India as both exclude their ethnic minorities from the mainstream media. The author echoes back to Moffatt's stories of bedeviling experiences with tales of similar issues around race, gender, and normality from Islamic Republic of Pakistan, wherein post-Independence immigrants are constantly struggling for appropriation and redefinition of their identities. The Pakistan born children of miscegenation are considered immigrants by descent despite the facts concerning Islamic origins, two nations' theory, migration, and over 60 years residency. The author shares the mutually bedeviling experiences of 'othering' and a struggle with the notions of shared social conscience and histories between children of miscegenation in Australia and Pakistan in the context of the Australian trilogy.

Hamade_oMay 23, 2023

In the best style of the supernatural stories of the television sixties Tracey Moffatt give us avant gard cinematography making a stylized Australian outback mixed between real things and sets with a very beautiful and dramatical photography full of irony, humour ,suspense and tragedy; she made a very unusual films and as always with this kind of films is very hard to accept the new reality that the director propose, then after the mixed feelings regular moviegoers but just of the regular cinema that always told the same story and in the same style never creating a new world, probably could be disappointed, if you think cinema is an adventure and the approximation to new cosmovisions and of course poetry and beauty, then this is a film for you.

Lili NegussieMay 23, 2023

It's rare seeing a film that is made by an indigenous person for indigenous people starring indigenous people. Tracey Moffatt 's Bedevil uses beautiful, almost eerie cinematography to tell three separate stories of hauntings. But these stories also speak to white colonialism and how Aboriginal people have been pushed to the outer margins in their own country. The film is quirky and very different but still accessible to everyone who doesn't mind watching a movie from a different perspective. Sadly it was not a box office hit at the time, but people have grown to love it and appreciate it for what it is. On another note, it's fun to see old places that I remember, like the local CES office and old buildings that are no longer there.

Sainabou MacauleyMar 2, 2023

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insta : l9ahwi👻Feb 25, 2023

Tracy Moffatt is an Aboriginal visual artist, and her film is an impressionist artwork, as well as a collection of three stories. She tells three stories about different groups of Aboriginal people and Whites, set in a surreal, stage-set version of Queensland, with pastel colours suffused with nostalgia. All the stories involve the supernatural, with strange inexplicable forces inhabiting certain places. In the first story concerns a young Aboriginal boy, who is dragged into a swamp by a strange creature. He escapes but remains haunted by the experience. Later on, a white family build a cinema over the swamp, where an American GI drowned in the war. The second story concerns a family who live beside a railway track, where a ghost train runs, and the ghost of a blind girl, killed by a train, wanders. The third story concerns a Greek family who live in North Queensland, and a couple of young Torres Strait islanders who die mysteriously and whose ghosts dance in the house opposite. All three stories were shot in a studio, though the film includes some shots from other parts of Queensland. This was the first feature film by an Aboriginal woman director, and is interesting, although the stories are very mannered, oblique and even absurdist.

Veronica NdeyFeb 25, 2023

The first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman - Tracey Moffatt, who also made Lip, a mashup of black servants in Hollywood movies talking back to their bosses - BeDevil was inspired by the director's childhood. The first story "Mr. Chuck" is about an Australian boy haunted by the spirit of a drowned American soldier, with the experience seen through the eyes of the boy as a man looking back on his youth and a white woman whose family colonzied Australia. And it's presented as a series of documentary interviews, heightening the strangeness of it all. In "Choo Choo Choo Choo, Moffat plays a character who might even be herself as a train continues to haunt a family as it runs on invisible tracks through Queensland, even decades later. The last story is "Lovin' the Spin I'm In," during which a doomed couple tries to leave their community behind to escape racism, their death ends up trapping them in an eternal dance. BeDevil has been compared to Kwaidan and that's an apt comparison. It feels like it came from a darker world than our own to explain and help us get past the darkness in our own place. Please try and seek it out, as it's an amazing film.

Lesly Cyrus MinkueFeb 25, 2023

In the best style of the supernatural stories of the television sixties Tracey Moffatt give us avant gard cinematography making a stylized Australian outback mixed between real things and sets with a very beautiful and dramatical photography full of irony, humour ,suspense and tragedy; she made a very unusual films and as always with this kind of films is very hard to accept the new reality that the director propose, then after the mixed feelings regular moviegoers but just of the regular cinema that always told the same story and in the same style never creating a new world, probably could be disappointed, if you think cinema is an adventure and the approximation to new cosmovisions and of course poetry and beauty, then this is a film for you.

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