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L'Enfer

 

aka: Hell
France 2005, 94 minutes
Dir. Danis Tanovic
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

 

Aroview: Intense and twisting family psychodrama based on a script by Krystof Kieslowski (THREE COLOURS) has three French sisters finding their lives unbalanced by a mysterious stranger, with clues and events leading back to traumatic past events involving their parents.

Emmanuelle Beart plays a housewife with a cheating husband; Marie Gillain, a student having an affair with her professor; and Carole Bouquet her mother's caregiver, with all three leading separate lives and looking to forget a horrendous family legacy. Dir. Tanovic (NO MAN'S LAND) constructs his puzzling narrative with cold efficiency and visual precision, although he lacks a touch for humanistic fabulism with which Kieslowski memorably invested his tales of fate and destiny.

Note: This was part of a planned trilogy which includes Tom Tykwer's HEAVEN (2002).

NZ International Film Festival 2006

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