Writer: Peter Strickland
Cast: Hilda Peter, Norbert Tanko, Laszlo Matray
Language: Hungarian
In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman
is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who
once abused her.
The film is set in Hungarian speaking part of Romania. Don't
ask me why Peter Strickland a British director would do that. Maybe the same
reason why he set his second film, Berbarian Sound Studio, in Italy. Or maybe
he wanted to set it in modern times and only in this Eastern European
wilderness he could fit the lawlessness of the story.
The film's time period is not apparent till the character
talks about mobile phone signals. It is an assured debut film completed at a
meager 28k pounds. The money mostly came from an inheritance from his
uncle. Whilst his second film is a genre bending horror masterpiece with a
Lynchian twist, this one is a revenge flick that don't tread the usual path
with its ending. Strickland is certainly a director to watch out for.
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