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Monday, August 12, 2019

SCRIBE and THE JUNIPER TREE


Scribe, the drawing currently on the work table in my ‘pop up studio’, anticipated one of yesterday’s MIFF films, The Juniper Tree (Dir. Nietzchka Keene, 1986), a dark medieval fantasy based on a tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. In the guise of a raven, the dead mother of a boy, Jónas, brings him a magic feather. The recently restored film is graced by a luminous central performance from Björk, as the boy’s stepsister, Margit.