A sense of emptiness permeates the entire film by Osgood Perkins Gretel and Hansel . The New York filmmaker returns to his stories focused on female and lonely characters, afflicted and left to their fate, as he did in his two previous feature films as a director: The Envoy of Evil (2015) and I am the most beautiful thing that lives in this house (2016), and in which he only participated as a screenwriter, The Girl in the Photographs (2017). Here to watch Gretel and Hansel full online at home
So you cannot say that you are taking advantage of the times. The change in the order of names in the title of her version of the Grimm brothers' tale is due more to her own vision than to an attempt to mount on a current topic of female empowerment. The film begins with the legend of a girl who, carried by her father with a sorceress to save her life, acquires supernatural powers that make her chilling and cause her own mother to abandon her in the forest and that she attracts children so as not to Stay alone.
Later, when that seems like just a story, Gretel (Sophia Lillis de It ) and her younger brother Hansel (Sammy Leakey) are run from home by their mother, who has no means to support them, in a time of deprivation and illness when The girl does not accept serving in a convent because the man in charge lets her know that she wants something more than cleaning.