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Germany, Hungary, France 2010
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
Cast: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville, Peter Wight, István Lénárt, Hannah Murray
Rating: -
Release Date: 7 April 2011
Running Time: 1 hour 48 minutes
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Subtle, slow but beautiful, from the start I'm just going to inform that Womb is a definite festival material. Far from being corny but stuffed with strong acting capacity from ALL the cast!
Rebecca and Tommy are friends since kidhood, Tommy is a local but Rebecca is a visitor in this empty cold place artic-like windy small island, and when she suddenly moved to Japan with her mother, they lose contact with each other. But 12 years later, Rebecca (Eva Green) still holds strong feeling for Tommy and she decides to come back and pay him a visit. Apparently nothing has altered their feelings for each other because Tommy (Matt Smith) even willingly to let go his current girlfriend, Rose (Natalia Tena), and he continues their relationship which is merely postponed.
But fate begs the differ when suddenly Rebecca loses Tommy once more... So big her love for him that it drives her to do something unimaginably sick, twisted, icky, disturbing that will haunt her for the rest of her life.
Written and Directed by Hungarian filmmaker, Benedek Fliegauf, Womb delivers this one shocking twist in the middle, one twist that I rarely felt, something that even made me stop breathing and had me impulsively bulged my eyes for a minute... something so profoundly shocking that it's hard for any viewer not to feel anything. Talking about storytelling technique.... NICE!
Womb is a straight hate-it-or-love-it category or more suitably as despise-it-or-amazed-by-it. The background story is disturbing, icky, sick but pathetically sad. And the execution --if one wants to ignore the premise-- is seriously hypnotizing... Hypnotizingly eerie, hypnotizingly pervasive and hypnotizingly uneasy. Furthermore, Womb is almost entirely devoid of any music, only once in a while do we hear a soft music but for the most of it, it's only the ambient sound of this empty island like the waves, the wind or the birds. The performances of Eva Green and Matt Smith are great, and most especially Matt Smith and Tristan Christopher (as Thomas 10 years old), they could perform as multiple characters without any flaw.
Go see this enchanting drama about love taking over common sense if you love beautiful motion picture strengthen by picturesque shooting locations pertaining the sea, beaches, bridges but only if you are mature-minded enough, otherwise, you'll get sicken by the premise which circles around Oedipus Complex and Human Clone. And believe me, you don't wanna see this with your family.
> Unique European Motion Pictures that will surprise you in various ways: Next Door (2005), Antares (2004), Melancholia (2011) and Romance (1999).
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
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posted: Thursday, 24 November 2011 03:24 am
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