Vinyan (2008)
(Vinyan: Lost Souls)
Country: FR/BEL/GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 96m
Director: Fabrice du Welz
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Julie Dreyfus, Petch Osathanugrah
Synopsis:
An expat couple bereaved by the Thailand tsunami pay a sex trafficker to be their guide when the wife thinks she sees their son alive in a video shot by an NGO contact in Burma.
Review:
From its Gaspar Noé titles and opening scenes you sense this is going to be one of those films about castrating motherhood, and so it proves. The lost child motif is familiar since Don't Look Now, the beguiling paradise recalls The Beach, but du Welz takes a left fork into Apocalypse Now as the couple sets off on foot into the jungle to finally go insane. An alienating sound design and suffocating visuals are hardly necessary for audiences to swallow the essential premise that when it comes to measuring up to maternal love, men will forever be the losers. (Cf. The Impossible (2012) and Mother! (2017).)
(Vinyan: Lost Souls)
Country: FR/BEL/GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 96m
Director: Fabrice du Welz
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Julie Dreyfus, Petch Osathanugrah
Synopsis:
An expat couple bereaved by the Thailand tsunami pay a sex trafficker to be their guide when the wife thinks she sees their son alive in a video shot by an NGO contact in Burma.
Review:
From its Gaspar Noé titles and opening scenes you sense this is going to be one of those films about castrating motherhood, and so it proves. The lost child motif is familiar since Don't Look Now, the beguiling paradise recalls The Beach, but du Welz takes a left fork into Apocalypse Now as the couple sets off on foot into the jungle to finally go insane. An alienating sound design and suffocating visuals are hardly necessary for audiences to swallow the essential premise that when it comes to measuring up to maternal love, men will forever be the losers. (Cf. The Impossible (2012) and Mother! (2017).)
(Vinyan: Lost Souls)
Country: FR/BEL/GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 96m
Director: Fabrice du Welz
Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Julie Dreyfus, Petch Osathanugrah
Synopsis:
An expat couple bereaved by the Thailand tsunami pay a sex trafficker to be their guide when the wife thinks she sees their son alive in a video shot by an NGO contact in Burma.
Review:
From its Gaspar Noé titles and opening scenes you sense this is going to be one of those films about castrating motherhood, and so it proves. The lost child motif is familiar since Don't Look Now, the beguiling paradise recalls The Beach, but du Welz takes a left fork into Apocalypse Now as the couple sets off on foot into the jungle to finally go insane. An alienating sound design and suffocating visuals are hardly necessary for audiences to swallow the essential premise that when it comes to measuring up to maternal love, men will forever be the losers. (Cf. The Impossible (2012) and Mother! (2017).)