Writer-director Gela Babluani's debut is a spare, ice-cold thriller that combines the nastiest ideas from THE DEER HUNTER (1978), INTACTO (2001) and HOSTEL (2006) to produce an icy plunge into the dark depths of the human mind. Shot in neorealist black-and-white, it opens like a gritty slice of social drama, then takes a sharp turn into bleak, existential horror. Sebastien (George Babluani, the filmmaker's brother), an impoverished, 22-year-old immigrant living in a small French town with his parents and brother, supports his family by repairing roofs. He doesn't realize — or can't admit to himself — how desperate and trapped he feels, until temptation, in the guise ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
86 mins