Meandering with the Living and…the Dead: Felméri Offers Absorbing Sunken Lake Drama
In Spiral, the dead don’t come back, but rather, they attempt to haunt one’s frail dreams. Cecília Felméri‘s mood-swinging horror drama debut unfolds in a fairytale lake setting — away from the strings of civilization and that is haunted by a ghastly curse, that slowly spreads its invisible thread and attaches itself to every thing that is living. Romanian classical literature is obsessed with damned places and the idea of purifying them by fire. In fact, there’s a kinship to The Mill of Good Luck, Ioan Slavici’s notorious novella about an ill-fated innkeeper who desperately tries to reshape a house into a hostel.…...
In Spiral, the dead don’t come back, but rather, they attempt to haunt one’s frail dreams. Cecília Felméri‘s mood-swinging horror drama debut unfolds in a fairytale lake setting — away from the strings of civilization and that is haunted by a ghastly curse, that slowly spreads its invisible thread and attaches itself to every thing that is living. Romanian classical literature is obsessed with damned places and the idea of purifying them by fire. In fact, there’s a kinship to The Mill of Good Luck, Ioan Slavici’s notorious novella about an ill-fated innkeeper who desperately tries to reshape a house into a hostel.…...
- 10/14/2020
- by Georgiana Musat
- IONCINEMA.com
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