Alexander, a boy who has been raised in a sequestered commune, finds that his increasing unwillingness to fall in line puts him on a collision course with Gregori, the society's charismatic and domineering leader.
Vincent Cassel is as compelling as ever in Ariel Kleiman’s intriguing if frustrating debut.
Kleiman has an eye for poetic imagery but the storytelling style is so oblique and dour that this is a jarring and difficult film to watch.
Vincent Cassel is the supposedly magnetic leader recruiting children for a robbery scam, but he never catches fire in Ariel Kleiman’s underpowered drama.
What should be chilling has no real impact.
Ariel Kleiman’s disturbing debut explores the grooming of child assassins by a charismatic cult leader.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday January 8, 2016, until Thursday January 14, 2016. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
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