Thursday, January 25, 2007

Le confessionnal (1995)

English title: The Confessional.
Synopsis: In 1989, a man returns to Québec City for his father's funeral, and, along with his adopted brother, pursues an investigation about the latter's real father. This story is interweaved with that of his parents, set in 1952, and his mother's sister who lived in the same house with them; the film also shows Hitchcock in Québec during the production of I Confess, of whose plot this film's is a variation.
Appraisal: Moderately interesting but too dispersive and ice cold; full of symbolism (the red paint that keeps coming back, the bathtub that is colored red, etc.); I didn't totally connect.
Rating: 48

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