The Millennial Bee (1983) vs. The Fear (1966)

[Curtis, baby]

The Millennial Bee (Juraj Jakubisko, 1983) vs. The Fear (Kostas Manoussakis, 1966)

Vote for either x1983 or x1966 (italicization unnecessary).

The deadline for voting is 12 a.m. EST on Sunday, July 14.

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[brian d]

hey, two more that I’ve seen before! i do tend to like the jakibisko, but his earlier films feel a bit stronger to me, even if they all are a bit anarchic, which i appreciate. but o fovos is one of the best greek films i’ve seen, so that’s the winner for me. (it’s been a long time for both, so nothing more substantive is available now.)

x1966

[Umbugbene]

Same for me... not only two films I've seen before, but two films I like a lot. Either one would be the winner in most match-ups, but I have to go with:

x1966

[Angel]

I'm on the opposite side, I prefer "The Millennial Bee" and the legendary (at least for Spanish TV watchers in the eighties) "Frankenstein's Aunt" to his most celebrated titles of the sixties, but still...

x1966

[karl]

x1983

The "magical realism" tires over the course of two and a half hours, but I still found "Bees" pleasant for the most part, and "Fear" deeply unpleasant: the latter is only a slick, arty "exploitation" movie. Sweaty, sexually frustrated hicks who go a-rapin': not very high grade stuff. And I am bored of the rapey-murdery business in pictures, frankly. "Bees" is good-natured and has a healthy attitude about sex in the open air, while "Fear" is all masturbation and self-loathing among the haystacks.

[mesnalty]

x1983

I wouldn't go so far as Karl, but I did enjoy The Millennial Bee's non-stop chaotic energy quite a lot compared to The Fear's plotting, though the latter is beautifully shot and edited. (Could do with a little less of the overbearing music, though.)

The Millennial Bee, Burnt by the Sun... are there any other Eastern European movies about villages visited by ball lightning?

[ofrene]

x1983

[DT.]

and "Fear" deeply unpleasant: the latter is only a slick, arty "exploitation" movie. Sweaty, sexually frustrated hicks who go a-rapin': not very high grade stuff. And I am bored of the rapey-murdery business in pictures, frankly.

I was originally going to pick Ruy Guerra's Erendira...which in hindsight, pretty much fits that description.

[rischka]

x1983 - sucker for a slav epic

[john ryan]

x1966

[bipolarvision]

liked both of the movies - the chaotic energy in millennial bee fizzles out once you enter the third act becoming rather generic, but i guess that's how sorrow is depicted. with o fovos, everything is rather primal in nature - oddly reminded me of peckinpah's strawdogs and a masterful climax with a rather bleak b/w cinematography (the dining table sequences towards the end)

x1966

[Curtis, baby]

Voting closed. 1966 wins 5-4.