A man kills his wife on his wedding night for "finding out" she was not a virgin. He is sent to a small town to work on a huge engineering project in the hopes of forgetting his "disillusionment". He feels attracted towards his host's fiancée, who retributes.
Partly silent with subtitles, partly spoken.
Interesting if imperfect drama. The premise is very promising: a man who feels cuckolded becomes subsequently the agent of another's cuckoldry. The film could be summed up as a study on masculinity in its purest state. The filming technique is far from flawless, but overall it is effective (I especially liked the brawling sequences). One problem for me was that it never transcended a mere realistic framework in which it clearly challenged credibility. For one thing, the main character is an educated man and thus is supposed to have more of a civilized veneer than he is shown to have. The ending is a bit of a stretch, too.
Rating: 58
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