2011
Venice Film Festival
最佳劇情長片
最佳劇情長片
A wealthy scion whose life is taken over by a mysterious doppelgänger, a lonely young wife who encounters a peeping tom, an alien monster crawling out of an ancient tomb, the gradually dissolving boundary between human and machine... Cult master Shinya Tsukamoto uses his wildest imagination as raw material, seasoned with body horror, to present a blood-soaked feast that leaves audiences squirming.
In every era, certain films persist as hidden gems, burning quietly their spectral flames in corners where nobody notices. Spectral, for having been buried by the arbitrary nature of its era, or from years of forgottenness in obscurity; Spectral, also for the fact that they give form to an internal, invisible burning within, weeping aloud in a deafening silence. With this programme, I hope to orchestrate encounters between these films and audiences who might not have realized their need for them. They do not yet know that they yearn for those spectral flames to flare up within their screen, to sting and scorch their yearning heart.