Innocence (2004)
Country: FR/GB/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Hélène de Fougerolles, Bérangère Haubruge
Synopsis:
Young girls arrive at a secluded boarding school in coffins, learn to perform ballet before an appreciative audience of men, and leave at the age of twelve to a world they know nothing about.
Review:
Surreal, unsettling mystery without a solution, reminiscent of its many influences beyond the source story by Wedekind: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Robert Bresson, Dario Argento and, to my mind, David Lynch and Cocteau. Its steady pace and shortage of dialogue may irk some viewers, but it offers a world in which one can immerse oneself pleasurably enough if one is so inclined, one where sound is every bit as important as image, the latter's fixed frame and existing light compositions anchoring the experience at a liminal space between the conscious and unconscious.
Country: FR/GB/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Hélène de Fougerolles, Bérangère Haubruge
Synopsis:
Young girls arrive at a secluded boarding school in coffins, learn to perform ballet before an appreciative audience of men, and leave at the age of twelve to a world they know nothing about.
Review:
Surreal, unsettling mystery without a solution, reminiscent of its many influences beyond the source story by Wedekind: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Robert Bresson, Dario Argento and, to my mind, David Lynch and Cocteau. Its steady pace and shortage of dialogue may irk some viewers, but it offers a world in which one can immerse oneself pleasurably enough if one is so inclined, one where sound is every bit as important as image, the latter's fixed frame and existing light compositions anchoring the experience at a liminal space between the conscious and unconscious.
Country: FR/GB/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Hélène de Fougerolles, Bérangère Haubruge
Synopsis:
Young girls arrive at a secluded boarding school in coffins, learn to perform ballet before an appreciative audience of men, and leave at the age of twelve to a world they know nothing about.
Review:
Surreal, unsettling mystery without a solution, reminiscent of its many influences beyond the source story by Wedekind: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Robert Bresson, Dario Argento and, to my mind, David Lynch and Cocteau. Its steady pace and shortage of dialogue may irk some viewers, but it offers a world in which one can immerse oneself pleasurably enough if one is so inclined, one where sound is every bit as important as image, the latter's fixed frame and existing light compositions anchoring the experience at a liminal space between the conscious and unconscious.