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Zone Blanche Netflix Series (2017)

October 31, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

zone-blanche-netflix-series-posterZone Blanche (“Black Spot” in English) is a French-Belgian series directed by Matthieu Missoffe. Two seasons are currently available on Netflix, with future seasons expected.

“The entire first season of Black Spot contains so many Dante references that any aficionado of Inferno can spot them: the deathlike forest impenetrable by sunlight; the suicide victims suspended from the trees, horribly disfigured by attacking birds; a teenage girl who cuts off her own fingers to escape a hellish coming-of-age ritual; a descent into a treacherous network of caverns to locate a missing person, assumed dead; encounters with beings who may be either alive or dead; a legendary monster called the Wendigo; a reservoir of waste guaranteed to kill what little life remains in the dying village. The careful viewer will spot yet more parallels to Dante, some of which are very subtle.

“With a vision as true as it is dark, Missoffe’s Black Spot not only recasts the evils of Dante’s Florence, but of our entire Western world.”    –Contributor Jane Wineland

Contributed by Jane Wineland (University of Arkansas Ph.D. ’26)

 

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2017, Crime Thrillers, Dark Wood, France, French, Horror, Inferno, Mystery, Netflix, Suicide, Suspense, Television, Thrillers

La Divine Comédie – Henry Barraud

August 24, 2020 By lsanchez

French composer Henry Barraud’s 1972 piece La Divine Comédie.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 1972, Divine Comedy, French, Music

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