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Stars new Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko. Soundtrack by Beth Gibbons (Portishead).
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It's like an erotic haunted dream --Aintitcoolnews.com
A surreal steamy drama --The List
A surreal steamy drama --The List
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a beautifully acted film, with a strong and intelligent cast. It's an unusual story - on the themes of love, death, and the burdens we yearn to escape from - in the form of a man and his young female assistant who run a laboratory which preserves specimens of people's possessions in order to allow their owners to escape from some spiritual ache or hurt. The director - Diane Bertrand - brings out the symbolism very well, and the film very powerfully focuses on the idea that all the objects which are brought in for preservation lose their essential living element. Many of the characters seem to be compelled by a force outside their control to do things they don't really understand. Olga Kurylenko - as the ingénue Iris - in particular brings out this aspect of the story very well. There's an aching loneliness to her performance which is very, very touching. The laboratory director - nicely understated by Marc Barbé - is the one character who seems to know what he's doing, but he too, like the others, is under a strange compulsion - even when he and Iris make love, she becomes his possession.
None of the main characters are free.
There is a good climax - symbolically handled.
None of the main characters are free.
There is a good climax - symbolically handled.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The Ring Finger [DVD] [2005]
The stunning Olga Kurylenko stars in this erotic tale of a young woman's increasingly fetishistic relationship with her new Employer. Iris(Olga) is 20 years old and looking for work. She comes across a strange laboratory where she gets a job as an assistant. Clients come in regularly, bringing with them all sorts of personal possessions which are preserved forever. Things turn strange when her employer requires her to wear red high heels and without fully grasping what is at play around her,
she is drawn into a dark world of sexual obsession. The film is based on a novel by Yoko Ogawa. Beth Gibbons provides the soul-stirring score. The film is directed by Diane Bertrand. The DVD is in 16:9 Anamorphic widescreen presentation. The Language is French, but there are subtitles in English. The film is undoubtedly like an erotic haunted dream.
The stunning Olga Kurylenko stars in this erotic tale of a young woman's increasingly fetishistic relationship with her new Employer. Iris(Olga) is 20 years old and looking for work. She comes across a strange laboratory where she gets a job as an assistant. Clients come in regularly, bringing with them all sorts of personal possessions which are preserved forever. Things turn strange when her employer requires her to wear red high heels and without fully grasping what is at play around her,
she is drawn into a dark world of sexual obsession. The film is based on a novel by Yoko Ogawa. Beth Gibbons provides the soul-stirring score. The film is directed by Diane Bertrand. The DVD is in 16:9 Anamorphic widescreen presentation. The Language is French, but there are subtitles in English. The film is undoubtedly like an erotic haunted dream.
9 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A subtitled movie, strange story, but Olga Kurylenko can do no wrong in my opinion - she's stunning! Well worth buying!
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Tepid
If you are into subtleties and rare tantalization, this is for you. This is especially so if the central actress 'can do no wrong'. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ian Hunter
Very good
Very good. At first I thought it might be the stero-type french movie but it is a great deal more. The main characters are unpeeleded scene by scene. Read more
Published on 23 April 2010 by Gary A. Dugan
Rather confused
I like films that make me think, but at the end of this, I was left thinking "what was that all about?". Read more
Published on 6 April 2010 by Mr. K. H. Cobb
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