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Dante 01 (2008)
13 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
For thinkers and independent cinema lovers, 9 January 2008
Author: leprutz13-1 from Spain
I saw this film in theaters today. Marc Caro his first movie directed on his own, actually, it is a truly intriguing film.
It all starts with the revelation of a space-base as a psychiatric prison ( ever heard of Alcatraz ), with very few mentally-ill patients and as well very few of the staff crew, which is near a deserted deserted planet which is to categorize as inappropriate to live on because of its burning temperatures.
The mystery of this whole movie begins with the entrance of two newcomers at the base. One is a new psychoanalyst I would say and the other one a mysterious prisoner whose origins are unknown. Ands this is exactly what the movie is about. he is referred to as a the help of god, by one of the convicts.
I do recommend the movie just for thinkers and to those who appreciate independent cinema. there is a total lack of the commercial type of editing or story. This movie isn't slow but could be for those who like Die Hard 4.0 genres. The direction above all is very studied, lots of different angles and a very good creation of the rhythm and psychotic style of the film.
Based on very philosophical means and very deep thinking into what we did to people in the past and we still do, you must pay fully attention to that one.
9 out of 10
11 out of 14 people found the following comment useful :-
Fantastic movie., 3 January 2008
Author: demicore (demicore@hotmail.com) from Toulouse, France
I had the pleasure of watching this movie yesterday and wasn't disappointed. I had been waiting for Caro's next work with great anticipation and I consider this movie to be a success on every level, with the only disappointment being that it didn't seem to have been released in many theaters in France, I hope it'll fare better in other countries.
This movie isn't an epic by any means. The story takes place in a psychiatric facility orbiting around a burning planet deep in space, and populated by little more than a dozen people, so the scale is pretty intimist. The patients of this space hospital are all death row inmates who have agreed to serve as guinea pigs for behavior-changing treatments in order to win a few years of life. The routines of the whole compound are disrupted when a new patient with intriguing abilities (Lambert) arrives, escorted by a new doctor (the beautiful Linh Dan Pham) ordered to test new treatments on the inmates.
You will soon realize upon watching the first few minutes of this movie that everything that happens in it is a metaphor, and that's all I will say about that in order not to spoil anything.
I have nothing but praise for all the elements of this movie. The actors are top notch (especially the inmates), as well as the direction, the art direction and the story, which all together manage with great success the most important aspect of any movie of that kind: to suspend our disbelief. The immersion was complete and I have not for one second questioned the how's and why's of the setting. The movie didn't feel too long or too short, and the ending was satisfying and brought a sufficient amount of closure while still leaving many aspects of the story open for personal interpretation.
Overall a great experience that I would recommend to anyone.
4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Brilliantly conceived, directed and edited, but ultimately disappoints, 1 May 2008
Author: banapaulo from United Kingdom
Got the chance to see this at the Sci-Fi London last night in a packed cinema. As a big fan of City of Lost Children and Delicatessen I was suitably excited. The film establishes itself from the off with a very confident and distinct visual style and sense of (the deep, dark void of) space.
A man arrives at a colony circling the fiery planet Dante, his name and history unknown. The ship is a base for psychiatric research on a handful of criminals, held as guinea-pigs and cut off from outside contact. The new man is seen as a messiah by some of the convicts, a trouble-maker by others, as the psychiatrists carry out routine and risky genetic experiments with their DNA.
The film maintains a heightened feeling of tension and claustrophobia that is almost migraine inducing but transfixing. The editing is first rate and the film is well acted (Dominque Pinon, a Caro and Jeunet regular, appears). Unfortunately, the plot keeps promising to go somewhere but ends up disappearing down a black hole of messianic symbolism, and the dialogue is fairly bland and perfunctory. The violence is also almost sickening at times, though this may not bother some.
This is a very confidently directed film that is clearly the unique vision of one very creative visualist, I only hope Caro could have applied his touch to better material and not surrender to pretensions of the religious and philosophical. I'm not suggesting that no film should try to tackle these things, but this film doesn't deliver enough of anything else. Many will call the film deep but ask them what it's about before you believe them.
Worth seeing, though. Definitely deserves better marketing, but I wouldn't want to be the one to do it.
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