gillman11
Joined Jun 2003
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Grim, slow burning study of the lowest of human behaviours.
Sleazy, painful and with an unsatisfying conclusion. Bit like life.
Anyone familiar with Rumley's previous work will not be disappointed, not quite up there with Red, White and Blue IMHO but an excellent film nonetheless.
Why is there a minimum character count, does everything have to be a thesis?
Sleazy, painful and with an unsatisfying conclusion. Bit like life.
Anyone familiar with Rumley's previous work will not be disappointed, not quite up there with Red, White and Blue IMHO but an excellent film nonetheless.
Why is there a minimum character count, does everything have to be a thesis?
Urgh. This year's seeking profundity by brutalising young women effort.
Clearly talent in front and behind the camera, all completely wasted on a tick box exercise in outrage - the aforementioned misogynist violence (and some of it is indefensible), rape, incest, auto cannibalism and so on and so forth.
Striving for the heights of Kieslowski or Haneke and falling down because everything it does has been done before and can only be that shocking once or twice but here we are 20 years later with people attempting to pull the wool with the same old shtick.
I didn't hate it but it profoundly bored me.
Clearly talent in front and behind the camera, all completely wasted on a tick box exercise in outrage - the aforementioned misogynist violence (and some of it is indefensible), rape, incest, auto cannibalism and so on and so forth.
Striving for the heights of Kieslowski or Haneke and falling down because everything it does has been done before and can only be that shocking once or twice but here we are 20 years later with people attempting to pull the wool with the same old shtick.
I didn't hate it but it profoundly bored me.
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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