You can probably watch this movie using the fast forward button on your remote at half-speed and not miss any plot developments. Each shot is about 10 seconds too long and the only explanation for this is self-indulgent editing. It's kind of like when you take a video camera along on your vacation and spend valuable time and footage on everything you see and realize later that most of your shots were unnecessary and boring.
This movie is not a "foreign version of The Witch" and is not a "slow burn" to anything. There are no supernatural elements to this film as it's a basic study of isolation, psychosis, post-partem depression, and paganism from 600 years ago. This is a lame version of "The Wind" most likely.
The cinematography is great; after the first 15 minutes it gets old.
A word to directors and producers: Please stop making movies that are so ambiguous that there is no reasonable explanation for the audience! This is lazy film making and people shouldn't have to go online and seek a definitive interpretation to enjoy the film. Ambiguity to a point can be an interesting plot device. "Hagazussa" tries too hard to be cloudy and that detracts significantly from the film.
