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Kate Dennis (screenplay)
Paul Hoffman (screenplay)
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19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Mark Strong ... Antonio Gabrieli

Sienna Guillory ... Julie
David Warner ... Judge Padovani

Charlotte Rampling ... Frances Matteo
Alice Krige ... Mirella Cenci
Frances Barber ... Isabella Flores
Derek de Lint ... Censi, Allessandro (as Derek De Lint)

David Sterne ... Vassi
David Schofield ... Roberto Fallaci
Wendy Veldhuis ... Sarah Gabrieli
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Rachel Bell ... Forewoman of the Jury
Nicolaas Brouwer ... Assistant Judge
Lachele Carl ... News Reporter
William Dix ... Member of the Jury
Richard Durden ... Minister of Justice
Matyelok Gibbs ... Grandmother Cenci
Karel Jagtenberg ... Member of the Jury
Debbie Korper ... Prison Guard
Yvonne Kruis ... Member of the Jury
Frank Ogilvie ... Usher
Steve Othman ... Member of the Jury
Esther Paradijs ... Secretary Gabrieli
Parissa Romaneschi ... Hairdresser
Tanya Ronder ... Cellmate
Han Smit ... Assistant Prosecutor

Enzo Squillino Jr. ... Paparazzo 1
Fabrizio Vigano ... Paparazzo 4
Frederick Warder ... Waiter
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Argentina:95 min
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Surreal fantasy thriller about supernatural power, 27 September 2002
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Author: Mikew3001 (mikew4001@yahoo.de) from Hamburg, Germany

This movie is based on a true story: In 1979 a British au-pair girl was working for an Italian family on the island of Elba and accused of firestarting and witchcraft after a few fatal incidents and a burnt-down house - the family told the judge she has caused the fires by "supernatural powers". She was accused guilty in 1982 but returned to England.

The film shows basically the same plot with stunning Sienna Guillory as the au-pair girl Julie with supernatural powers. Mark Strong plays her lawyer Antonio who has to fight mainly against prejudices and the fundamental superstition of the people and the media. Director Kenneth Hope hasn't produced a copy of the doomy "Exorcist" and "Omen" horror movies, but rather a silent psycho drama with great actings by Guillory, Strong, Charlotte Rampling, Alice Kringe and David Warner. There is no happy end, a thrilling court room drama sequence and there are also some very surreal and disturbing dream sequences.

If you relate "Superstition" to the horror movie genre, it's one of the best contemporary European genre productions apart from the boring popcorn horror movie remakes and teenie slasher trash of the current Hollywood productions.

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