PINNLAND EMPIRE: A FEW MORE (ADDITIONAL) WORDS ON THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER *UPDATED*

Friday, December 30, 2022

A FEW MORE (ADDITIONAL) WORDS ON THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER UPDATED

Yeah, there’s The Haunting obviously, which is an incredibly frightening film, so I did dare to look at that again before making this. Then there’s The Innocents - Joanna Hogg, letterboxd.com

The Innocents /
The Eternal Daughter

Because I can’t stop thinking about The Eternal Daughter, I had to squeeze out one more post on it...

I came across a recent interview with Joanna Hogg & Tilda Swinton on Rogerebert.com that inspired this post

The Innocents, of course. One of the things that The Innocents has a very uninhibited use of dry ice, which encourages that outside on the lake with the images, and there's something very no holds barred about that - Tilda Swinton, Robertebert.com

with Jovan Ajder, the sound designer, we listened to "The Innocents." We watched it, but really listened to the soundtrack of that and how the sounds are very unnatural, in a way, and very, very, very present - Joanna Hogg, Rogerebert.com

So…in keeping with the theme of gothic physiological ghost stories rubbing off on Joanna Hogg’s latest masterpiece (click here to read my last post)- below is a quick visual exploration on the influence of Jack Clayton’s The Innocents on The Eternal Daughter

Because you had discussed certain aspects of this. You told me a gothic film, and immediately I thought of two pictures: The Innocents (1961), of course, and The Haunting (1963). Again, these things are 50 or 60 years old. Doesn’t matter. These things seem to not age in any way, both those films, and particularly The Innocents. But I felt that what you should be aware of was not only M.R. James, the literature, the casting the runes and that sort of thing, but Night of the Demon, Tourneur’s film, is so unique in that it’s made by a man who actually believed in the supernatural - Martin Scorsese, Metrograph.com

Enjoy…