Enemies to lovers, fantasy, feminism, godawful acting, growth, human sacrifice, old special effects, questionable costumes, trans rights, wild haircuts. WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?!

Okay I won’t even lie I LOVED this it’s literally everything to me. Awful acting, worse wigs, enemies to lovers, mc disguising herself as a boy to go to war and falling in love, gorgeous man, gorgeous woman, gorgeous costumes, funny and stupid?? Thats literally all I need

Being an italian family-friendly fantasy movie "The Cave of the Golden Rose" naturally contains child murder, offering of humans, transsexuality (or maybe it is better put as intersexuality?), a shot of a vagina and Mario Adorf.
It is also a charming movie in which the quality of the story is sadly only seldom brought to live by the not-so-great execution. The book might be of more interest - highlights in the movie itself are the white knight and the grown-up Fantaghiro.

Four of my most important criteria for perfect cinema are met here:

1. Shitty puppets given too many close-ups;
2. cute ladies in armor;
3. Ángela Molina;
4. goose in a bag.

One film into this series & I'm having to talk myself down from basing my entire life, or at least all of my holiday film-watching, around it.

This is so bad that it goes all the way around and becomes good.

No, not really. It is still awful. But it is part of the roots of Italian culture. If you want to impress an italian girl, tell her that she is as fierce and persona bella as Fantaghirò

i am so normal about this movie, therefore i have many things to say:
1. Romualdo’s face card is LETHAL
2. Fantaghiro’s face card is LETHAL
3. the white witch’s face card is LETHAL
4. i LOVE me some shitty puppets 
5. i need me a goose friend in my bag at all times
6. her armour had a GOOSE HELMET- that’s camp
7. at the end when Romauldo says “even the geese are happy” IS TOO ADORABLE
8. Romauldo is my confused bisexual king 
9. Fantaghiro said trans rights!
10. this movie has become my new personality

ITALY WAKE UP why don't we make movies like this anymore

la teoria gender nell'epoca berlusconiana

cant wait to see the other parts because this was a huge surprise for me. very whimsical high fantasy. something just sits hella right with me and i really loved the vibes

this is a shoujo, fight me ⚔️

the bisexuality is strong with this one

I love you Fantaghiro, your stilted performances, constant perfume commercial diffusion, talking rocks/ducks/trees, your gender bending, zippy peplum romance, and your cross between The 10th Kingdom, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, and Italian Sword and Sandal cheapies.

Bava’s forever!