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Switchblade Romance
(Haute tension / High Tension)
Alexandre Aja / France 2003 / 94 min / 35 mm
With: Cécile de France (Marie), Maïwenn
Le Besco (Alexia), Philippe Nahon (murderer)
Turku: Fri Nov 18 at 21.15 / Kino Thalia, sali 3
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Helsinki: Fri Nov 25 at 23.00 / Orion
Be frightened
This year Vinokino will present to you what will most likely
be the most brutal film you'll see for some time. Switchblade Romance is
a slasher film with the right kind of attitude – true friends
of gore and splatter will not be disappointed. Marie, played
by the very sexy Cècile
de France, is planning on spending a quiet weekend with her
sultry best friend Alex (Maïwenn Le Besco) and
her family in the countryside. Instead of sleeping in the guest room, Marie would
rather spend the night in Alex's bed. This night, however, no one is going to
get any sleep. A nasty sleazebag of a murderer attacks the family and kidnaps
Alex, and in order to save the day, Marie has to try and save the girl of her
dreams.
In Switchblade Romance, the young and talented director Alexandre
Aja gives a new twist to the old clichés of horror films: there's
running in a dark forest, hiding under a bed, surveillance camera shots – you
name it. But Aja is able to add to this classic setting a brutality that goes
beyond horror and gives
the film an almost surreal tone. Camera work is exceptionally impressive and
despite it's ultra-vicious content, Switchblade Romance will hold you in its
grip till the very bloody end.
".this is a slick and sick little movie that will get
under your skin and stay there for weeks."
Justin Bowyer, Empire
"De France in particular radiates a manic energy as she fights for Alex.
She's a Sigourney Weaver-style survivalist, as brutal as she is lovely. Aja's
unflinching embrace of the exploitation elements of the slasher genre only increases
De France's ferocity as she defends herself at different points with a cement
cutter and a "Walking Tall"-style two-by-four with a barbed-wire tip."
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune .
NOTE!
If you get scared easily, this is not a film for you.
English subtitles.
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Text by
Marjo Pipinen
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