#BLACK DEATH 2010 MOVIE MOVIE#
Alex von Tunzelmann of The Guardiantitled his review, “Black death should be burned at the stake,” and Dan Jolin of Empirecalled it a grubby muddle, “leaving you wishing you were just rewatching The Name Of The Rose instead.” Tim Robey of The Telegraph, however, is impressed by the movie, even going as far as calling it “ Bergmanesque.” Even with its star-studded cast (Eddie Redmayne played Osmund and Sean Bean played Ulric), the movie only made $265,318 worldwide. The film received mixed reviews by both critics and audiences, receiving a 6.4/10 on IMDb and a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. When we see Osmund last, he is a witch hunter, seeing Langiva in every woman accused of witchcraft. Langiva manages to escape but not before she confesses to Osmund that Averill was never dead until he stabbed her. Soon after, Ulric reveals he has the pestilence and that the whole village will now be infected. Believing that she’s in purgatory, and in an attempt to save her soul, Osmund stabs her. Langiva attempts to lure Osmund into her cult by telling him that she has brought Averill back to life for him. When they refuse, they’re tortured and killed. Warmly welcomed by its leader, Langiva, the group are then drugged, caged, and asked to renounce God. When they finally get to the village, things only take a turn for the worse. The journey to the village is a long and dangerous one and when it comes time for Osmund to sneak away to meet Averill, he finds only her bloody clothes and believes her to be dead. Osmund volunteers so that he can meet the girl, Averill, he loves in a place not far from the village that Ulric is seeking. A knight named Ulric and his men arrive at Osmund’s monastery seeking a guide to a village that’s been untouched by the plague. The film follows Osmund as he goes on a most traumatic journey, transforming him from a young and naïve monk to a witch hunter, blinded by his own guilt. Black Death (2010) takes place in England during the fourteenth-century plague, or the pestilence, as the film refers to it.
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