A Banquet
- 2021
- 1h 37min
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4,7/10
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Une mère veuve est radicalement mise à l'épreuve lorsque sa fille adolescente insiste sur le fait qu'une expérience surnaturelle a laissé son corps au service d'une puissance supérieure.Une mère veuve est radicalement mise à l'épreuve lorsque sa fille adolescente insiste sur le fait qu'une expérience surnaturelle a laissé son corps au service d'une puissance supérieure.Une mère veuve est radicalement mise à l'épreuve lorsque sa fille adolescente insiste sur le fait qu'une expérience surnaturelle a laissé son corps au service d'une puissance supérieure.
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- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 1 victoire au total
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First off who ever did the cinematography and styling deserves an award. Don't listen to the negative reviews, and like the other high ratings stated this movie isn't for everyone. I'm not really sure how people said it was a "slow burn all the way to the end", when it had me glued to the screen, intrigued and feeling uneasy the entire time. (Coming from someone who has the attention span of a goldfish and extremely picky with movies, especially these days........
If you like eerie, anxiety induced psychological movies this is for you. I'll admit we've seen this theme before but it's nicely done.
If you like eerie, anxiety induced psychological movies this is for you. I'll admit we've seen this theme before but it's nicely done.
A Powerful Dark Dark Film . Brilliant acting. Film about a subject so close to fiction as to reality very well mixed when drama meets the horror that gets a young girl and her family. I love it. I really did love this British Horror film.
It PAINS me to rate this an average score, but damn that ending.
Absolutely no spoilers, but to ME, personally the climax, or more accurately, the last few moments, were such an incredible letdown. YOU or anyone may love it, and more power to you. So, I'm not really trying to discourage anyone from making it to the end. Hopefully, you'll get more out of it than me.
UP to that point...I really dug this movie. The atmosphere, tension building, acting, cinematography...ALL so top notch, you'd think you were watching a $50 million-dollar Hollywood film. In fact, I was so amazed during this movie, I was wondering why most Hollywood movies I see aren't half as good as this talent.
The film revolves around a family tragedy that leaves a single mom to raise her two daughters, the older of which is somehow transformed one night in the woods near a party she was attending and now...she won't eat. Okay, there's more to this, as expected, but her lack of eating, mood-swings and possible premonitions will increase alongside her mother's desperation to help her.
This is labelled as "horror," but I'd put it more as a slow-burn suspense/family drama. And I've seen movies like this before and no offense to this cast/crew, but much better. Such as the real horror movie, Raw. There was also a segment of the horror anthology, XX, called "The Box" - also, much better.
Still, it was fantastic to the end and I'll leave it up to you if you decide they did the story justice with their conclusion.
***
Final Thoughts: Completely different movie, but I would also compare this slightly to 2021's Malignant. And that's only a small part of A Banquet. Please know, I loved Malignant 3x more overall. Still, I felt the need to bring it up.
Absolutely no spoilers, but to ME, personally the climax, or more accurately, the last few moments, were such an incredible letdown. YOU or anyone may love it, and more power to you. So, I'm not really trying to discourage anyone from making it to the end. Hopefully, you'll get more out of it than me.
UP to that point...I really dug this movie. The atmosphere, tension building, acting, cinematography...ALL so top notch, you'd think you were watching a $50 million-dollar Hollywood film. In fact, I was so amazed during this movie, I was wondering why most Hollywood movies I see aren't half as good as this talent.
The film revolves around a family tragedy that leaves a single mom to raise her two daughters, the older of which is somehow transformed one night in the woods near a party she was attending and now...she won't eat. Okay, there's more to this, as expected, but her lack of eating, mood-swings and possible premonitions will increase alongside her mother's desperation to help her.
This is labelled as "horror," but I'd put it more as a slow-burn suspense/family drama. And I've seen movies like this before and no offense to this cast/crew, but much better. Such as the real horror movie, Raw. There was also a segment of the horror anthology, XX, called "The Box" - also, much better.
Still, it was fantastic to the end and I'll leave it up to you if you decide they did the story justice with their conclusion.
***
Final Thoughts: Completely different movie, but I would also compare this slightly to 2021's Malignant. And that's only a small part of A Banquet. Please know, I loved Malignant 3x more overall. Still, I felt the need to bring it up.
Started slow and got slower as time went on. Seems like a pointless film to me. Doesn't entertain, doesn't provoke thought, doesn't provoke fear. Doesn't achieve anything, much better films out there, Next....
After witnessing the death of her father, a young woman has a mysterious experience which leads her to believe that she is intended for a higher purpose.
Deliberately paced and slow burning, Ruth Paxton and Justin Bull's film manages to portray the existential horror without (too much) reliance on gross out or trope-ish apocalyptic imagery.
The slow burn unravelling of proceedings is sustained by smartly controlled filmmaking and excellent performances, particularly the double leads of Sienna Guillory and the extraordinary Jessica Alexander.
It's final scene feels a tad familiar but doesn't lessen the strength of what's gone before.
Well worth a look for admirers of films like Violation, Censor and Saint Maud or Von Triers mid period films, particularly Dogville and Melancholia.
Deliberately paced and slow burning, Ruth Paxton and Justin Bull's film manages to portray the existential horror without (too much) reliance on gross out or trope-ish apocalyptic imagery.
The slow burn unravelling of proceedings is sustained by smartly controlled filmmaking and excellent performances, particularly the double leads of Sienna Guillory and the extraordinary Jessica Alexander.
It's final scene feels a tad familiar but doesn't lessen the strength of what's gone before.
Well worth a look for admirers of films like Violation, Censor and Saint Maud or Von Triers mid period films, particularly Dogville and Melancholia.
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 5 238 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 2 641 $US
- 20 févr. 2022
- Montant brut mondial
- 43 327 $US
- Durée1 heure 37 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39:1
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