Una giovane coppia sta facendo una passeggiata e decide di inoltrarsi in un grande cimitero. Quando inizia a calare l'oscurità, si rendono conto che non riescono a trovare la via d'uscita e ... Leggi tuttoUna giovane coppia sta facendo una passeggiata e decide di inoltrarsi in un grande cimitero. Quando inizia a calare l'oscurità, si rendono conto che non riescono a trovare la via d'uscita e presto le loro paure iniziano a sopraffarli.Una giovane coppia sta facendo una passeggiata e decide di inoltrarsi in un grande cimitero. Quando inizia a calare l'oscurità, si rendono conto che non riescono a trovare la via d'uscita e presto le loro paure iniziano a sopraffarli.
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Rollin refers to Rose of Iron as an art film. Why it has garnered the label of horror can only be because Rollin is largely a director of horror movies. This one isn't. Not really.
The plot concerns a young couple who decide to take a stroll through a quiet, seemingly unending cemetery. When night falls, the lovers realize that they cannot find the way out. As time progresses, fear gives way to madness.
There is much to recommend this film. It is beautifully shot, the cinematography almost having a surreal, dreamlike quality. The performances are quite good also for relative unknowns. If you have the patience, give this one a try. That is, if you can find it...
When they try to leave the cemetery, they're unable to find a way out. Increasing panic spirals downward into insanity. Death, the fear thereof, and superstitious dread are explored.
One of Rollin's more subtle efforts, it contains far less nudity and more philosophical discussion than his other horror films. The scene where the young lovers roll around in human bones is unsettling, and what's up with the clown, anyway? Rollin followers will enjoy this, while those expecting a typical horror movie might want to watch something else...
The plot navigates around a young man falling for a pretty girl, they meet at party where his poetry (need I remind you that not all poetry is rose are red) wins him the attention of an attractive girl. In keeping with the surreal they meet in a eerily quiet train yard and soon find their way to a graveyard. Our male lead lacks what you'd call respect for the dead and they're soon making love in a family crypt. When they're done night has fallen, they're locked in. Fear and madness begin to overtake them. But is there more to the graveyard than meets the eye? Perhaps, perhaps not. Rose of Iron is at the very least, a very enigmatic film.
A purely psychological horror, with few actual elements of the supernatural. It could be that they are simply lost in the graveyard, but at times they seem to be going straight but ending up where they began. It plays on conventions and stereotypes as our male lead becomes angry and violence prone. Since it is he who triggers the inciting incident, it is of course him that the obligatory scene at the climax must focus more one. But ultimately it's the female lead and her surreal serenity that leaves us with a climax you won't find in many gore encrusted horror films.
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- QuizJean Rollin: Strange man walking through the cemetery.
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The Boy: [In the cemetery, looking at all the elaborate tombs] I don't care where they put me when I'm dead.
The Girl: Do you think the soul escapes from the body after death? Is there such a thing as the soul?
The Boy: I don't think there's anything left after physical death. And it's stupid to spend all that money on stiffs.
The Girl: Some do that out of love.
The Boy: Well, I prefer the love of life more than the love of death.
- ConnessioniFeatured in La nuit des horloges (2007)
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