Title: Vinyan Original title: Vinyan
Year: 2008
Country: France, Belgium, United Kingdom and Australia
Duration: 96 '
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Subject: Fabrice Du Welz
Screenplay: Fabrice Du Welz, Oliver Blackburn and David Greig
Unable to accept his son's death occurred in the disaster tsunami of 2004, Jeanne and Paul Bellmer have remained in Thailand. The baby's body It is not never been found and this leads to hope that the couple is still alive. In particular, Jeanne is convinced that his son may have been kidnapped by human traffickers who took advantage of post-tsunami chaos to stock up on children. The two women come corropere the mysterious Mr. Gao because you take them with his boat on the routes of the pirates who infest the local coastline. What you will discover, however, beyond their imagination as possible, arriving in a mysterious village hidden on a remote island.
When I write a comment on a film I always have the big problem of not knowing where to start. One of the many reasons why in the past to comment about the past, less frills and more substance. The problem is even greater when you have to be shown and judged is a strange film and not digestible in a short time as "Vinyan." Where to start? But I know, we throw down two lines and see what comes out.
Fabrice Du Welz is not a stranger came out from God knows what dark cave of Europe. Or rather, it was seven years ago, when he left his first work of this underrated gem "Calvaire." A combination of madness and distress in just over an hour and a half in duration. One of the most unsettling horror drifts of the new millennium. Now the good
Du Welz is one of the most promising film all the best poets of the madness that is in circulation today. Cinema extreme and visionary, his.
"Vinyan" is his second work, but it is a film so complex as to be complete and the film of the maturity of a veteran of surrealism.
The cues (as was "Psycho" for "Calvaire") are obvious since the first few seconds: "Apocalypse Now" and "The Thin Red Line" at all. But Du Welz, as it did with his first effort, is completely detached from its roots way to get personal and very rewarding.
Cult Thanks for giving us the pleasure of seeing. The film begins. Headlines of the giant head, surrounded by an anxious silence. Then run the first images. The style is frenetic, the images dark and devoid of natural light. Is dominated by the gray, grief, anger and the first flashes of madness. Spend a half hour and Du Welz begins to move his puppets in a crazy world where reality and imagination blend into a dark tunnel with no way out. The couple Bellmer, like Captain Willard Coppola's masterpiece, sneak into a hostile nature, populated by corrupt individuals are completely foreign to Western society, desperate for something that everyone knows to be nonexistent. Fagogitati from a world that none of us can truly understand.
Fabrice Du Welz turns with style exquisitely designed masterpieces of painting each frame. Follows its characters in their descent into the underworld without missing a second, knowing exactly where to go and when to parry. He does so so thin as to leave a stone's vision just finished. I doubt there are many, a masterpiece or crap crazy? The film remains in the mind to rest for a short time and already shines like gold. This, in essence, is a Filmon of blinding beauty.
A film more to feel, to understand that. A journey, not a sequence of events Scandic by any logic. Must find the key to the viewer, and do not necessarily coincide with that of anyone else.
For my part, would give an interpretation, but take it with pliers, "Vinyan" deserves at least another vision. SPOILER to follow, ocio. Let's look at the film from another perspective: Who says that the child is to be the Vinyan, the lost? If we look at everything from another point of Jeanne and Paul may just be the dead who can not find the way to the afterlife. The first unable to accept the loss of life (symbolized, why not just by his son), the latter aware of their condition, but too fond of his wife to leave in limbo. In the final afterlife created by Jeanne destroys itself increasingly out of Paul, the disturbing element, and created the illusion of a new life. Back light, the child is found. There is still hope and life. Final mocking and far from positive, black as pitch.
Many people did not like it, is the fate of many unusual and unconventional film. I will have been kidnapped, the more the mind back to those images, the more I am convinced that he saw a near-masterpiece. You have a little 'free time? Do yourself a favor and enjoy this gem.
