Product: Lea [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
Mesmerizing film
I found the film Lea disturbing. A modern day peasant girl in an Eastern European country witnesses the brutal treatment and eventually murder of her mother by her father (stepfather?). A couple in the village takes her in and sells her to a cruel German for a princely sum of money (by their standards) to be his wife. He is 30 years older than her and his treatment of her is very similar to what her mother put up with. Also, she is a gifted writer and also a artist. Maybe she developed this talent because the trauma she endured made her unable to speak easily.It might be because I'm American I can't see how the two develop a love for each other as time goes on. I could never truly forgive the man even if he did slowly change.