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| MalefiqueHP200290 min[ IMDb » ] | Shows:
16-04 at 18:00-19:30 in Cinerama 1
21-04 at 18:15-19:45 in Cinerama 3 | Downloadable (large) images for this movie:
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No images available |  Thanks to a financial infusion from the script development division of media giant Canal+, there is a noticeable increase in France of fantastique fait à la maison. The noteworthy maléfique is a case in point , and has become, in spite of - or because of - its meagre budget, a small but vicious horror/drama wherein director Eric Vallet has integrated the qualities of the classic French school of directing with a full-blooded genre film. Compact and intense, this is the claustrophobic tale of a prison cell where four inmates must endure each other - until the discovery of a long lost diary breaks the routine of the daily card game. The writings of Danvers, a man who sat in the same barred cell at the beginning of the twentieth century, prick their curiosity, and with them, they trigger tragic and horrifying results. Scriptwriters Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier are mainly known in their own land for innumerable sketches for Les Guignols, the French Spitting Image, a puppet show that pokes fun at political and cultural figures and their difficult relations with the media. A few comic elements slip into the oppressive environment of maléfique, but luckily this is not the usual prepubescent or misplaced comic relief that many horror films use to make themselves palatable for a wide audience. And it goes without saying that seeing Valette's inventive, claustrophobia inducing jailhouse-horror takes the - if not moral, then sensible - question of holding several prisoners in one cell in an entirely new direction. |
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