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Definitely worth seeing

I saw this film without knowing anything about it, including its genre (if, indeed, it has one). Surprising is the first word that i associate with the film, but i realise that this can be taken in many ways. Personally, i found it an interesting, if a little bizarre and disturbing, film. Long but never boring, it features remarkable acting by Isabelle Adjani, and is very nicely shot. There is a lot to this movie that i won't pretend i understood, but its obvious depth warrants, and no doubt rewards, close attention.

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Jings Crivens!

One of the weirdest films I've seen with some fairly wooden performances.

Sam Neil is amazingly wooden, Heinz Bennet is hilarious as this sort of lothario character, he moves around and speaks in such a weird way you're constantly entertained. Adjani, although for the early part looks very beautiful, starts to look really creepy as her character goes wacko with great effect. The fashion in which dialogue is written and spoken is so bizarre it teeters on the edge of 'art house' absurdity.

Factgasm: There's a really creepy dark figure that crazy Adjani has an affair with that was actually designed by Carlo Rambaldi who'd worked on Alien, ET and Dune.

On first view you think its actually a really crap film but then you watch it again for the 80's luminous socks and you start to see some of the best set pieces: the Subway freakout; anything Heinz Bennet does; Sam Neil's weird colleagues; the Bloody Beast; the wild car and bike crashes and you start to think this crap is actually quite good ... if you know what I mean.

Not for surreal movie newbies, you have to earn your passage via Stalker or anything by Luis Bunuel or Jan Svankmajer first before you can come here or your face will melt.