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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  LEMORA - I can't believe it's taken me so long to get around to this wonderful film. This may sound over the top, but watching parts of 'Lemora' felt almost like walking in a dream... the overall look in some respects couldn't be more Bavaesque, and the feeling is as hazy but more fairy-tale. The attitude is more unsettling - it's about an adolescent girl's existential growing pains, and it's difficult to know whether we're in the realm of psycholgy or the supernatural as the two seem blurred here. Whatever, I think it's a unique film, for all the right reasons... I only ever really say that about Eraserheads and Holy Mountains etc. "Impressionistic and really quite spooky" doesn't quite sum up the intoxicating atmosphere of this strange and beguilling movie. |
I have a theory that once in a while certain film makers for reasons unknown, reach across all known boundaries in their films and offer the viewer a glimpse of something "other". As odd and unfashionable as it sounds these glimpses for me are like Shamans returning from the spirit world with tales of wonder and medication for the soul. "Lemora", "Messiah of Evil", "The Child" and parts of Jean Rollin and Franco's films do this for me.