‘Sorcery’ Review: A Sinister and Satisfying Fable of Anti-Colonial Revenge in 19th-Century Chile

From a distance, like on a zoomed-out map, the South Pacific island of Chiloé looks almost like a peninsula. It nestles cosily into the embrace of the Chilean coastline, separated only by a narrow …

,” a meditative tale of anticolonial vengeance that has its basis in fascinating true events in Chilote history, but that wears the skin of a dark fairytale.

A chilling occurrence interrupts Rosa’s prayer. Heralded by the restless, scraping strings of Leonardo Heiblum’s excellent, uneasy, if a little over-stressed score, all of Stefan’s sheep out in the fields are dead or dying. Rosa finds a mysterious braid of twisted twigs and vines wrapped around one of the gasping animals, but when her father comes to investigate, Stefan immediately jumps to conclusion that it is he who is responsible.

There are shades of “True Grit” in this story of determined young girl seeking the counsel and help of a grizzled elder in the commission of an act of vengeance. And where Mattie Ross discovered an aptitude for Rooster Cogburn’s saddle-weary cowboy lifestyle, Rosa also bonds with Mateo — only it’s her nascent witchcraft powers, fostered by Mateo’s adviser and spellcaster Aurora , that draw the two of them together.

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