Hole In My Heart, A
Hole In My Heart, A : short review
Shot under extreme secrecy and set in a dingy suburban apartment, the film features some of the most shocking images in recent memory. Lukas Moodysson focuses on Rickard and his painfully shy son Eric, who spends most of his days holed up in his room, listening to spectacularly abrasive industrial music, presumably in an attempt to drown out what's going on in the rest of the apartment. His father, an amateur pornographer, is shooting his latest opus with a friend Geko and a young woman named Tess. As the trio get drunk and more impressed with themselves, they lose what little inhibitions they had and their behaviour grows more and more disturbing.
A cop (Edward Woodward) is summoned to a remote Scottish island to investigate the disappearance of a child, whereupon he uncovers a bizarre pagan cult, led by Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). As preparations for a sinister ritual celebration reach fever pitch, the policeman begins to realise what role the islanders intend him to play. The DVD Special Edition contains both the original theatrical cut and the director's cut.
In the space between desire and fear, between reality and illusion, between life and death lies a whole other alternate world that is brought to life in this mind-bending thriller. The story plunges beneath the surface of ordinary experience to take a man on a spiraling descent through the mysteries of identity, dreams and the very fabric of existence. At face value, this is the suspenseful story of dedicated New York psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) and his urgent attempt to stop a secretive and unusual young patient he inherited, Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling), from carrying out a planned suicide on the eve of his 21st birthday. But behind the primary tale, lies a far more unsettling and surreal mystery: that of the reality-shattering effect that investigating Henry starts to have on Sam. As Sam is drawn deeper into the web of Henry's life - and then into the labyrinth of his subconscious - at first it simply puts stress on Sam's relationship with his artist girlfriend and former patient Lila (Naomi Watts). But soon Sam's own tightly-held grip on the rational world begins to melt away. Faced with increasingly surreal encounters and a Manhattan transformed into a wildly shifting dreamscape, Sam can no longer figure out what is true and what is happening only in his head, nor where he begins and Henry ends. So just who is Henry Lethem and why is he fracturing Sam's reality so profoundly?
Vivaldi - Viva Vivaldi! - Cecilia Bartoli/ il Giardino Armonico
PLACE:Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris COMPANY:Cecilia Bartoli and Il Giardino Armonico LANGUAGE: Italian ORCHESTRA: CONDUCTOR: Giovanni Antonini
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