It's a world where society is fractured and you can't be sure who you can trust; in which magic and religion co-exist, but that religion may come in the form of simple faith, complex theology or cynicism; where bodily needs and discomforts are pressing and science is advanced enough to deliver death at the end of a musket but there is nothing much beyond herbs and superstition to stave off disease.
A Field in England is so far the only film I've seen by Ben Wheatley, but I loved it and that alienness of past is much of what I loved.
That said, I would definitely love to see a film which offered the surreality, visual aesthetic, and feel for the social and historical context of the seventeenth century which this one did, but was also strongly or even wholly focused on female characters.
Depending on which side of the Atlantic you want the seventeenth century on, have you seen The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015)? Otherwise, I have heard very good things about Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019).
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A Field in England is so far the only film I've seen by Ben Wheatley, but I loved it and that alienness of past is much of what I loved.
That said, I would definitely love to see a film which offered the surreality, visual aesthetic, and feel for the social and historical context of the seventeenth century which this one did, but was also strongly or even wholly focused on female characters.
Depending on which side of the Atlantic you want the seventeenth century on, have you seen The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015)? Otherwise, I have heard very good things about Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019).