shellymc

i actually own Daughters of Darkness - i really like it, i've seen it a few times now. it has such great atmosphere - plus i love those 70's sex/horror conglomerations anyway. but it is a step above most of them, i think. the only thing that bugs me about it is the whole "mother" bit - seems it was reaching for some sort of hamfisted 'Psycho' connection there, since it didn't seem to really go anywhere. Delphine Seyrig is incredible as Countess Bathory...


and - i LOVE 'Don't Look Now' - what an incredible film. my girl and i do an imitation of the little creepy killer's shaking its head "no" all the time. there's an interesting story connecting that film and the Wicker Man - they were both being produced by the same studio at the same time when it was up for sale, and almost both got trashed when it was bought... i think they premiered on a double bill, actually...

anyway. lots of rambling there.

It means something like:

When the gondolas are mourning.

Gondolas mean gondolas, but the strange thing is the usage of 'Trauer tragen' which would normally relate to a person wearing something visible (to others, e.g. black clothes) to indicate that they are mourning. Well, gondolas in Venice are most of the time 'wearing black' so that the term 'tragen' could also mean something like 'transport' e.g. somebody who's mourning. Kind of mystic the choice of words but doesn't seem to relate to "Don't Look Now".

Probably the translation would have sounded stupid in German and raise some expectations which have nothing to do with a thriller. So, now, with that changed title, we would expect a tragedy of some kind ...