Visually striking and viscerally repellent, director Denis Villeneuve's Quebecois oddity offers a nightmarish vision of one woman's unraveling, the likes of which haven't been seen since Roman Polanski pushed Catherine Deneuve off the deep end in REPULSION (1965). And not since SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) have we encountered a more unusual narrator: For reasons that are never really clear, the narrative is recounted by a large fish that's slowly being hacked to pieces in what looks to be Hell's last fish market. The finny martyr uses its last breaths to tell us a "pretty story" about 25-year-old Bibi Champagne (Marie-Josee Croze), the beautiful daughter of a famous mothe...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
88 mins