Hadzihalilovic’s latest feature is like a cross between a Jacques Cousteau underwater documentary and one of David Cronenberg’s cerebral body horror films.
In Lucile Hadžihalilović’s diverting fantasy, boys are implanted with foetuses, but the film never quite achieve the body horror or eroticism it seems to aim for.
It will undoubtedly garner accusations of pretentiousness, and these may even have some grounding, but this is a film that lingers in the mind, and shouldn’t be ignored.
A mysterious medical facility lies at the creepy heart of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s visually eloquent second film.
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