Y a-t-il une vierge encore vivante?

LeStalker

Amusant cauchemar où toujours l'image, la photo, et le texte sont parfaitement léchés, avec tout ce qu'il faut de bave...

NGboo

Amazed, amused and bemused. A beautiful nightmare.

msmichel

Mandico's short films seem to offer diminishing returns though it should be interesting to see what his pending feature length plays like. A lovely muse in Elina Lowensohn however.

dionysus67

Surreal mixture of Borowczyk's weird erotica with Parajanov's tableaux vivants. Not to my taste but it is occasionally poetic and, paradoxically, able to convey the mysticism and carnage of Joan of Arc's alternative end far better than most historically faithful films.

FilmEdie

The production & sound design of fantasy: condensed. Lush, transgressive opulence. As if Yann Gonzalez had a darker, dirtier, cattier, film director brother w/ a background in fashion photography. Or, like a Cocteau-inspired bedtime story, but for smart queenie bitches like Fassbinder & Visconti. I’d say gleefully perverse but it wasn’t glee so much as poised, in-your-face, fierceness. Much fun.

Tibulle85

Distrayant, mais j'avoue que ce court m'a laissé un peu froid (contrairement au réussi "Prehistoric Cabaret", où l'humour aidait grandement à faire passer la pillule). Là, l'ennui pointe rapidement...alors même que le tout ne fait que 9 min! A part mettre mal à l'aise, on ne comprend pas trop où le réalisateur veut en venir.

laura karl

Visually the movie is stunning. Unfortunately I couldn't fully understand the french part (female protagonist speaking). I'm very annoyed by the screenplay and don't really understand, why someone would want to retell this cruel story, especially using this authoritarian male voice, talking virgins and virtue. I get that he wants to be provocative, but some aspects of it seem to romanticize violence against women.

Quattro

Two stars just for the delightful screenplay and some hilarious ideas, but the mise-en-scène (cinematography, lighting, scenography, costumes) is far from Mandico's best. Too bad I missed some lines spoken in French by the end, because of the absence of subtitles. And, is the post-credit guy Mandico himself?