Film Reviews by Popeyethetim

This used to be a difficult film to source. A tense thriller on snuff movies. Well worth it. Pace builds through the film. Its well directed and tight and builds to a sense of the usual inability to escape from the clutches. It is well worth getting this out to see a genre from a Spanish side rarely seen.

Probably his best work. Immaculately filmed. Tense throughout and incredible performances from all the actors. There is a great deal unsaid about the returned father which leaves him a bit of an enigma but we get hints of what he is like from his interactions with the two sons, the eldest of whom is readyu to accept him but the youngest and more sensitive doiesn't cope with it and rejects him. This is a great film, easily Zvyagintsev's best.

Everyone is a total selfish arsehole. The only redeeming factor is the boy who disappears. Andrey Zvyagintsev at his bleakest but a great study of characters and quite amazing acting and directing.

Bensoin and Moorhead. What can you say. Their films are always out there. This one we have a trapped in the loop film and a character study on cults and brothers. There is a strange feeling of dislocation that is built into this film which gets you when watching it.