Kasper Juhl is a director that I've had mixed feelings about. Most of his movies I think are absolutely terrible! But his movies 'A God Without A Universe' and especially 'Moonfire' show that their might be more going on with this director then I initially believed. And this movie I can safely say fits firmly between those two films.
The story is an interesting one as it focuses on two sisters. One sister with a long history of being abused who wants to get revenge on her sister for not suffering as she did throughout her life. So her revenge she decides that she's setting her up to get violently sexually assaulted from her male friends.
Now the plot sounds simple enough but there's minor subplots that kinda confuse the narrative. Like one involving a hooker that seems to be completely irrelevant to the story. And the eluding to past events instead of actually making it clear what happened in the past hurts the movie in my opinion. It doesn't let you sympathize with the either sister because your not quite sure what happened even if you get the gist for the most part. Plus there's one scene where the other sister Rose, whose usually quite a nature loving women inexplicably starts attacking a tree with an axe. It seems like if they're eluding that she might be mentally suffering as well, but again her backstory is so vague that it just feels like it comes from absolutely nowhere
I don't know, there just seems to be some narrative flaws in this movie. But mostly it's beautifully shot. And the film has a real dread induced feel throughout while showing you very little in reality. It's a well made movie for the most part even with some of its flaws.
The story is an interesting one as it focuses on two sisters. One sister with a long history of being abused who wants to get revenge on her sister for not suffering as she did throughout her life. So her revenge she decides that she's setting her up to get violently sexually assaulted from her male friends.
Now the plot sounds simple enough but there's minor subplots that kinda confuse the narrative. Like one involving a hooker that seems to be completely irrelevant to the story. And the eluding to past events instead of actually making it clear what happened in the past hurts the movie in my opinion. It doesn't let you sympathize with the either sister because your not quite sure what happened even if you get the gist for the most part. Plus there's one scene where the other sister Rose, whose usually quite a nature loving women inexplicably starts attacking a tree with an axe. It seems like if they're eluding that she might be mentally suffering as well, but again her backstory is so vague that it just feels like it comes from absolutely nowhere
I don't know, there just seems to be some narrative flaws in this movie. But mostly it's beautifully shot. And the film has a real dread induced feel throughout while showing you very little in reality. It's a well made movie for the most part even with some of its flaws.
