The Temptation Of St. Tony

Misery is alive and well in 21st century Estonia, as illustrated by The Temptation of St. Tony, a fascinating but willfully perverse trek through a surrealistic landscape from director Veiko Ounpuu. Simian-featured actor Taavi Eelmaa stars as the title character, the financially comfortable staff supervisor of an Estonian corporation whose life spirals into a nightmare as he endures a series of increasingly upsetting trials, including but not limited to: his father’s morose funeral by the sea, the discovery of mass murder in the woods, a trip to a sub-rosa cabaret that spotlights peculiar non-grisly forms of misogynistic torture on-stage, entrapment in a cage ...