The Plot: Jesse is a young aspiring model
who arrives at Los Angeles with her innocent look and soon she starts what will
be a successful career. But the older models see her as a threat, envy her
looks and decide to show her that they would do whatever is necessary to be
her.
The cast: Elle Fanning is perfect as Jesse,
with her innocent smile, big eyes, but also reveals a darker side. As her
friend Ruby, Jena Malone is deliciously twisted. As the two older and skinny models,
Bella Heathcote and Abbey Lee are truly cold and artificial. The male
characters aren’t that important and, to tell the truth, Keanu Reeves is
irrelevant to the plot.
The Movie: Director Nicolas Winding Refn is
what I call a movie author. His movies have a distinct look, strong colours,
characters on the edge and there’s plenty of violence, but always with style.
Sometimes they have more style than substance and that’s the case with this
movie. Visually is a strong experience, although I’m not a big fan of long
takes that seem to go on forever. I don’t know if I can call this an horror
movie, I think it’s more like a very dark satire to the world of fashion. For
this kind of movies to work for me, they need to have a stronger story and I
need something more than style to chew on. Maybe there are one or two scenes
that can be called gratuitous (the sex with the dead body), but I liked the
euro-trash look of the movie that reminded me of some horror movies of the
60/70s, directed by people like Jesus Franco or Jean Rollin; there’s also
shadows of SUSPIRIA. Of course this isn’t for everyone’s taste and I think
something important is missing in it, but it has its moments and the end almost
make it worthy of our attention.
My Rate: 4
(from 1 to 10)
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