This one's available free this month on OnDemand from the Sundance Channel. It's a surreal French horror film. Starts out extremely slow--like, nothing happens for 30 to 45 minutes--then, just when you're nodding off, BANG! A little bestiality to wake you up. It quickly heads into weird nightmare territory.
Here's a clip of the best scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1owrlQlLExY&feature=related
I could have done without the long setup, and it's pretty pretentious with some eye-rolling Christ allegory stuff, but some of the images stuck with me the next day. If you're into David Lynch you might want to give this a try.
I did give Calvaire a try, because Netflix compared it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Straw Dogs.
I hated it. It made #3 in my list of worst movies I watched last year, where I described it as "a boring movie about pigf**kers." And I had such high hopes for the film.
I do love David Lynch movies, but emphatically do not love Calvaire.
Quote from: Mofo Rising on May 11, 2008, 06:56:51 PM
I did give Calvaire a try, because Netflix compared it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Straw Dogs.
I hated it. It made #3 in my list of worst movies I watched last year, where I described it as "a boring movie about pigf**kers." And I had such high hopes for the film.
I do love David Lynch movies, but emphatically do not love Calvaire.
Thanks to Netflix, I fell into the same trap...atleast I didnt' suffer alone!
I'm not surprised at the negative reaction. I didn't like it the first time through. Then I watched certain scenes (like the clip posted) again and liked them. I guess I would consider it a bad movie, but with good individual scenes.
If you liked Calvaire (and I wouldn't tell anybody else that fact), you may be interested in this Hungarian film I watched last year called The Werckmeister Harmonies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249241/).
As a film I do not think it that great, but it as some great scenes in it, mostly due to the cinematography. The two films are not that similar, but they have something of a similar tone. I enjoyed the latter more than the former. Not too much more, but it's worth checking out.