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October 12, 2006

EARLY REVIEW OF NEW KIYOSHI KUROSAWA FLICK

Derek Elley reviews Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest movie, RETRIBUTION in Variety. Starring Koji Yakusho as a cop who's starting to suspect that he may be the target of his own investigation into a string of bizarre serial killings. RETRIBUTION follows the largely dismissed LOFT and if Elley is to be believed, it's a doozy.

"...a modern-day ghost story/serial-killer mystery that blends the helmer's typical ingredients of guilt, suggestion and waking madness in largely successful doses."

But let's hear from Elley in free verse. Cue the bongos:

"
Takes this simple premise of a cop who may or may not be a murderer
And then skews it.

The ghost-woman appears to climb out of his bedroom wall
During an earthquake tremor.

Seems to resolve itself two-thirds of the way through.
Springs the first of two major twists

The occasional ear-splitting wail the ghost-woman summons up,
A sense of the spirit-world pressing against the real world,
Like a face against a window pane.

Never sticks to the ribs.
Classily made.
Lucid colors.
Chiaroscuro lighting.
Gentle dread.
Bubbling away.
"

Gone, baby, gone.

October 12, 2006 at 11:32 AM in Reviews | Permalink

Comments

Sometimes you're just brilliant, Grady.

Posted by: Munin | Oct 12, 2006 7:46:43 PM

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