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I love that bourgeois decadent aesthetic as much as everyone else but this movie is too damn slow.

Literally nothing happens for 2/3 of the movie and the final twist doesn't really make up for it. The idea should have been explored a lot more

The cinematography is good. The characters are emotional. It's very difficult to expect anyone to understand what they have without knowing what its like to have none of it. There are several threads of thought within the film. There is the evil that inhabits those with too much control. There is the desperation that comes with keeping dark secrets. Love is easily distorted when one tells themselves that everything they so is for others. People only ever do what they believe, so what they want. There is a man in this film that enjoys being horrible. He feels he can justify himself by saying it is someone else making the decisions. No one can be like he is without being truly depraved deep inside himself. A sub-theme is the significance of music genres. Music is best enjoyed when all the genres are understood- not just one. Possibly the film can be summarized by saying happiness is best enjoyed while knowing what you do not want.

Very very slow movie and somehow boring in its first part, it is surprisingly good once the end is revealed. De Feo direction is really classy and the cast is good.

After the 1st half I already wanted to leave but I decided to give it a chance, and honestly I wish I didn't... Nothing happens, it's painstakingly slow and since allegedly it's a horror movie I was expecting some suspense, a little thill... but no. Nothing happens until the last 10 min or so, and even then it's ridiculous, it doesn't justify the torture of going through almost 2h of nothing and to top it up the special effects are pathetic... if you still want to see this poor excuse for a movie be my guest, but I'd advise to save your time and money until they start releasing real movies again.

Let's be clear: horror is a genre that in Italy has been forgotten for about 20-25 years. After ancient glories and masterpieces signed by worldwide-acclaimed masters such as Argento, Fulci, Avati and Bava, horror cinema seems to have totally disappeared from national screens.

Roberto De Feo's "The Nest" is the breath of rebirth and resurrection of a long forgotten genre. The Nest is a horror that does not point to fear or disgust with particular visual artifices, but adheres to a more suspended, obscure and implicit line like Robert Eggers' "The Witch". Except for two or three visually more decisive and explicit sequences (placed however in a timely manner and not inopportune) it is a film that is based on dark atmospheres, on a sense of anguish and on a feeling that something strange is about to occur. It is a horror that also presents very delicate sequences, not trivial and well cohesive with the rest of the work. A fairly predictable end, however, if one takes into account the clues given here and there in the film and the narrative evolution of the story. An ending that presents nothing innovative, but well cohesive with the premise built by the film.

On a technical level, it presents a really beautiful and extremely accurate photography, moreover being a horror, and an Italian horror. From the directorial style it would be very plausible to believe that it is an Anglo-Saxon or American production. De Feo's direction is obscure, punctual, precise, elegant, enveloping but also sufficiently detached. Actorial evidence is positive on the whole, except for some high and low of some actors.

The Nest could be the rebirth of a new wave of Italian horror, and I sincerely hope that it is not a beacon of darkness destined, inexorably, to go out to make a long-forgotten genre return to oblivion.

7.5/10

Absolutely the worst 2 hours of my life. Pathetic.

I do not understand the high ratings regarding this movie; I'm truly at a loss.

People want to call this movie an aesthetically, beautiful, dark and intelligent, slow burn, when in reality it's simply long, boring, and wasteful.

There is so much of nothing going on for an hour and a half, no explanation as to the motives of the psychotic mother, the brain numbing pace, the child who is so micromanaged you began to wonder if he's truly brainwashed, or just stupidly compliant.

The scenes are so long and drawn out without any cohesive understanding as to what prior scenes have to do with what is currently happening.

Just gloom, doom, an overly dominant mother, the other psychotic character, the doctor, and household staff who wander around, terrified, of who knows what.

And, that ending. Really? Surely the producers could have given better subtle cues within the movie, so when the end comes you're prepared for it all to make sense. No. You're just left scratching your head going, huh? With all that said, after the big reveal at the end, (you still hate the mother) you'd think the mother would've wanted that kid to walk... but, you have to watch it to understand what I'm saying; or just watch 30 minutes then fast forward to the end, and ask yourself it it was worth fast forwarding, or sitting through all the drivel.

Complete waste of time, this movie is so bad I felt compelled to open an account and write a review in hopes of helping people avoid this garbage. Please save yourselves and don't watch this movie. It's unbelievable bad. It's the most boring and pointless thing I've ever put myself through for one hour and forty seven minutes. I would've literally rather watched Frozen with my daughter for the millionth time over this. Breaking my nose was a more enjoyable experience than watching this movie. One time I was stuck in traffic for over 7 hours because of a hazmat spill and that was more entertaining than this movie.

It is a pleasure to see films of this genre in the Italian panorama. The Nest is directed by Roberto De Feo, here at his first rehearsal as a director. In some places we see that this is his debut film but otherwise he has an excellent staging where the jumpscares are not the tension but the gothic atmospheres and the fact that there is a mystery behind the whole. Excellent the cast, chosen with great care and above all excellent the ending that initially may leave you perplexed but, observing the film, the dialogues and certain enigmatic scenes, we can understand that that ending was well studied. Recommended!

This movie is so slow its painful. The entire time your wondering why everyone is afraid of the bony woman and her evil doctor sidekick. Oh you find out in the end, but what you will see is just another rehashed storyline.

Im not sure why some confuse long & drawn out as art, but it appears some here did. This film has way too much of little kids in underwear too, so much that it makes you feel uncomfortable. I mean really, who wants to see that. A European preference it would appear.

Long story short, this is a movie made from parts of many others. No fresh ideas, boring and doesnt deliver at all. If you brave watching this, do it early in the evening. If you dont you will fall asleep. Not like uou would be missing much anyway.

I gave this film 3 stars purely for the atmosphere of the film. Otherwise, it a long and tedious and seemingly endless all leading to a pretty lousy twist at the end that did not warrant the long and strange storyline to build up to it.

It is listed as a horror story, but except for the twist there is NOTHING horrific in it except for extremely creepy mother and extended family and their bizarre ways.

The characters are all pretty creepy, not in haunted or supernatural ways, but in reflecting people who make your skin crawl with their personalities.

Even the boy comes across as a sinister figure, although he is not. The story makes him a tragic figure and one deserving of the viewers sympathy, but the way he is played and his dialogue makes one feel unsettled by him.

It is not horrible, but you choose to watch it keep No-Doz and strong caffeinated coffee handy to keep you awake till the end!

"The Nest", a sophisticated combination of horror/psycho drama by Italian director Roberto De Feo (awards for short films "Child K" and "Ice Scream") was presented at the 72nd Locarno film festival. This film is by no means a simple jump-scare distraction; it is incisive and distressing and begs contemplation. De Feo and director of photography Emanuel Pasquet work with dark, merciless elegance to exhault a powerful cast (Francesca Cavallin, Ginevra Francesconi, Justin Korovkin, Maurizio Lombardi) and the desolate beauty of the location. Tension and anxiety are deftly accumulated to depict the tragedy of vulnerability deformed into paranoia that proliferates through annihilating forms of power. The struggle ensues when vital forces attempt to protect innocence and the need to love and give courage to live in the unimagined truth.