Alléluia (2014)
Country: BEL/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Fabrice du Welz
Cast: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra
Synopsis:
A woman who works washing the bodies in the hospital morgue is encouraged by her friend to go on a lonely hearts date. When he takes money from her and leaves her hanging, she pursues him and there begins a mutually dependent relationship in which his serial seduction and her homicidal jealousy vie for supremacy.
Review:
Shockingly violent murder spree for material gain, apparently based on a real case. The director opts for a complicit mise en scène, bringing us uncomfortably close to the disturbed couple (his Bogie worship and pathetic impressions of hippo taunting from The African Queen; her infatuation and abnegation of maternity for this surrogate man-child). The most bizarre scene has her deliver an extraordinary lullaby of admonition, direct to camera. Definitely one for Jonathan Ross's Incredibly Strange...
Country: BEL/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Fabrice du Welz
Cast: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra
Synopsis:
A woman who works washing the bodies in the hospital morgue is encouraged by her friend to go on a lonely hearts date. When he takes money from her and leaves her hanging, she pursues him and there begins a mutually dependent relationship in which his serial seduction and her homicidal jealousy vie for supremacy.
Review:
Shockingly violent murder spree for material gain, apparently based on a real case. The director opts for a complicit mise en scène, bringing us uncomfortably close to the disturbed couple (his Bogie worship and pathetic impressions of hippo taunting from The African Queen; her infatuation and abnegation of maternity for this surrogate man-child). The most bizarre scene has her deliver an extraordinary lullaby of admonition, direct to camera. Definitely one for Jonathan Ross's Incredibly Strange...
Country: BEL/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 93m
Director: Fabrice du Welz
Cast: Lola Dueñas, Laurent Lucas, Héléna Noguerra
Synopsis:
A woman who works washing the bodies in the hospital morgue is encouraged by her friend to go on a lonely hearts date. When he takes money from her and leaves her hanging, she pursues him and there begins a mutually dependent relationship in which his serial seduction and her homicidal jealousy vie for supremacy.
Review:
Shockingly violent murder spree for material gain, apparently based on a real case. The director opts for a complicit mise en scène, bringing us uncomfortably close to the disturbed couple (his Bogie worship and pathetic impressions of hippo taunting from The African Queen; her infatuation and abnegation of maternity for this surrogate man-child). The most bizarre scene has her deliver an extraordinary lullaby of admonition, direct to camera. Definitely one for Jonathan Ross's Incredibly Strange...