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05. Devot
Director/Script:
Igor Zaritzki
Cast: Annett Renneberg, Simon Boer
Germany 2003 Colour 92 mins
"...She's perched on a bridge, ready to jump. He propositions her like
a common whore. Is it fate? She follows him home. Can this be coincidence? Inside
closed doors, grotesque sculptures and hidden TV cameras insinuate aggression
and voyeurism. Game for anything, anything becomes a game. Tied up in a contraption
chair, the masochist captive ensnares her sadistic captor into a web of half-truths
and uninhibited fantasies of rape and murder. Dark is the soul which knows itself
not, when calculation and carnal instincts are one, and predator becomes prey.
Nine 1/2 weeks squeezed into one long, erotic, unpredictably terrifying night..."
(source:
The 28th Hong Kong Interational Film Festival www.hkiff.org.hk)
This is a surprise! The film, much out of my expectation, is a good shot with thoughtful arrangement of story development. Both actors, Annett and Simon have performed astoishingly in the film. This is a real plus to the works. Deviated from films of similar concept like the Cube or the Death Experiment, Devot provides a lighter thrilling effect but with a more dedicated design on the dialogue of the characters as well as their mental change along the storyboard. The choice of storytelling is applausing!! Surely that a more detailed management of the thrilling effect in the film as well as a better presentation of the story ending can bring it to the next sublimation...just a little bit away from a classic one...and this is quite a pity indeed. (8/10)
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