Crimson Peak (2015)
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col 119m
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam
Synopsis:
Nineteenth century America, and an heiress is courted by an entrepreneur who has failed to secure her father's backing for a machine designed to extract the crimson clay from the former's family's ancestral property in Derbyshire, England. Meanwhile her mother's ghost delivers baleful warnings of 'Crimson Peak'.
Review:
Again the director revisits his fascination with mechanical contrivances and monsters in human form, the less repellent in aspect, the more deadly. It's all very baroque and grandiloquent, and is probably his best English-language offering to date, even if it leaves a few too many questions unanswered, and its full-blooded ghoulishness and inquisitive heroine fail to make up for the absence of Pan's Labyrinth's far more apt historical backdrop.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col 119m
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam
Synopsis:
Nineteenth century America, and an heiress is courted by an entrepreneur who has failed to secure her father's backing for a machine designed to extract the crimson clay from the former's family's ancestral property in Derbyshire, England. Meanwhile her mother's ghost delivers baleful warnings of 'Crimson Peak'.
Review:
Again the director revisits his fascination with mechanical contrivances and monsters in human form, the less repellent in aspect, the more deadly. It's all very baroque and grandiloquent, and is probably his best English-language offering to date, even if it leaves a few too many questions unanswered, and its full-blooded ghoulishness and inquisitive heroine fail to make up for the absence of Pan's Labyrinth's far more apt historical backdrop.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col 119m
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam
Synopsis:
Nineteenth century America, and an heiress is courted by an entrepreneur who has failed to secure her father's backing for a machine designed to extract the crimson clay from the former's family's ancestral property in Derbyshire, England. Meanwhile her mother's ghost delivers baleful warnings of 'Crimson Peak'.
Review:
Again the director revisits his fascination with mechanical contrivances and monsters in human form, the less repellent in aspect, the more deadly. It's all very baroque and grandiloquent, and is probably his best English-language offering to date, even if it leaves a few too many questions unanswered, and its full-blooded ghoulishness and inquisitive heroine fail to make up for the absence of Pan's Labyrinth's far more apt historical backdrop.