This is a complex movie,not your routine horror flick where gore and special effects get the lion's share ;
I wrote about "tous les dieux du ciel ":Quarkxx (Alexandre Claudin) is certainly one of the most promising newcomers to emerge in the decade; he will be a name to reckon with in the years to come.
That said, "pandemonium " is more uneven than his previous effort ;The opening is brilliant : only two actors on the screen, one of them not believing he's not in the great beyond ;the subject is not new and will reminds you of "carnival of souls" and the numerous films influenced by this indie movie ( "au coeur de la vie" segment "an incident at owl creek bridge","Jacob's ladder", "the sixth sense " " the others" the list has become endless) But Quarkxx does it in about twenty minutes :he broaches the matters of good and evil ; the dialog between boll men has something of Sartre "Hell is other people ".
Sadly , all that follows is not on the same level:the perverse nasty little girl is a hackneyed subject ,since Mervyn Le Roy's "bad seed " (1956) and Quarkxx does not really renew the subject with his young murderess, let alone with her new "friend" ; it's only in the theater when the naughty girl performs her act before two corpses that the director lives up to one's expectations.
The third segment which begins where the first has left seems to regain strength : the man who died in a car crash in Hell where he's "welcomed " by a specter who tells him that in eternity time does not exist anymore and that not even the "purgatory" of sorts (the word is not mentioned in the Bible ,and it's an exclusive Catholic dogma ) can redeem a soul because the humanity is par excellence evil ;after the "40 centuries " (which echo Christ's 40 days in the desert ?), the films succumbs to special effects and the paraphernalia which mar today's fantasy and horror movies.
Even disjointed , the movie has moments of brilliance which should not be overlooked.
I wrote about "tous les dieux du ciel ":Quarkxx (Alexandre Claudin) is certainly one of the most promising newcomers to emerge in the decade; he will be a name to reckon with in the years to come.
That said, "pandemonium " is more uneven than his previous effort ;The opening is brilliant : only two actors on the screen, one of them not believing he's not in the great beyond ;the subject is not new and will reminds you of "carnival of souls" and the numerous films influenced by this indie movie ( "au coeur de la vie" segment "an incident at owl creek bridge","Jacob's ladder", "the sixth sense " " the others" the list has become endless) But Quarkxx does it in about twenty minutes :he broaches the matters of good and evil ; the dialog between boll men has something of Sartre "Hell is other people ".
Sadly , all that follows is not on the same level:the perverse nasty little girl is a hackneyed subject ,since Mervyn Le Roy's "bad seed " (1956) and Quarkxx does not really renew the subject with his young murderess, let alone with her new "friend" ; it's only in the theater when the naughty girl performs her act before two corpses that the director lives up to one's expectations.
The third segment which begins where the first has left seems to regain strength : the man who died in a car crash in Hell where he's "welcomed " by a specter who tells him that in eternity time does not exist anymore and that not even the "purgatory" of sorts (the word is not mentioned in the Bible ,and it's an exclusive Catholic dogma ) can redeem a soul because the humanity is par excellence evil ;after the "40 centuries " (which echo Christ's 40 days in the desert ?), the films succumbs to special effects and the paraphernalia which mar today's fantasy and horror movies.
Even disjointed , the movie has moments of brilliance which should not be overlooked.
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