Impressive.
Most impressive if you count the director, Kane Parsons is 20 years old ! It's based on his youtube found footage series.
To be seen and appreciated in a cinema !!! Really !
Plot description: After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.
I saw it tonite., and the theater was packed with teenagers. They knew the backstories, the innerworld of the film, the odds and inns. I guess it's one of the reasons Backdoors has a great thetrical run, the best of A24 til now (overpassing Civil War ).
Totally psychedelic & psychotronic, some M. C. Escher angles and tricks, reminding recent Exit 8, and some other cool mindf*cks, Cosmatos' Beyond the Black Rainbow, Tarsem's The Cell, Cube, Us, Severance office sets (actually inspired by the backwoods originals) and Twin Peas Black Lodge landscape and soundscape.
The production /set design is all practical, was built as a maze. And the colors (yelowish) and the lightning.
Could've been more claustrophobic, and it has some weaknesses, clumsiness, confusing ideas, also starts too slow and it's too long, but still, as I wrote above, Impressive.
Chiwetel Ejiofor is Clark, the Alone man, the furniture shop `architect` and Renate Reinsve (fresh from Oscar's Sentimental Value and Cannes fare, Fjord) is Mary, a shrink whose book Window of self is a also a clue. Mrk Duplass is the Third Man, as a scientist with a more complicated backstory...
A sort of Malice in Wonderland occurs. Some RMI too, or not ?
And there is aalso a clue from a classic film and tale/book, The Neverending Story...
Anyhu, I hope a new serious genre Director was born...
Horror had a great (Theatrical too) run recently, with (i'm mentioning my chouces here): Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsummer, Beau is Afraid, Eddigton), Ti West (In the Valley of Violence, The Sacrament, X, Pearl, Maxxine), Osgood Perkins (exec. producer here- Longlegs, The Monkey), Damian McCarthy (Caveat, Oddity, Hokum), Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons), Tilman Singer (Luz, Cuckoo), Charlie Polinger (The Plague), and feminin fare too, Coralie Fargeat (The Substance), Julia Ducournau (Raw, Titane, Alpha)...
I just hope this will not start another weak franchise as I just saw a whole video about the backstory of the Backrooms here...
3 1/2 out of 5, 7 out of 10 !
Sound design and soundtrack wise, kudos, this song from Boards of Canada on the closing credits was the hughlight.
https://pitchfork.com/news/boards-of-canada-soundtrack-backrooms-end-credits/
also a Klaus Doldinger song in it too (Moonchild).
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