Vinyan (2008)

	Directed by: Fabrice Du Welz	COUNTRY France/Belgium/UK/ Australia GENRE Horror/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Vinyan RUNNING TIME 96 minutes
	Produced by: Michael Gentile
	Written by: Fabrice Du Welz

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Jeanne Bellmer	Emmanuel Béart	½
Paul Bellmer	Rufus Sewell
Thaksin Gao	Petch Osathanugrah
Kim	Julie Dreyfus

Review

Having lost their son in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami, a European couple have now convinced themselves they’ve seen the boy on a news clip from Burma’s jungle, and the two pay local mobsters to escort them into the wilderness. Vinyan is a slow-moving, tedious experience in which director Fabrice Du Welz insists that you feel his protagonists' pain, using an abundance of sound effects and visual trickery in order to achieve his goal. Arguably inspired by films such as Gaspar Noë’s Irreversible, Vinyan is far too circumstantial and speculative to compel, and once the now deranged couple – played by Emmanuel Béart and Rufus Sewell – find themselves in the heart of jungle madness, Du Welz is more bent on realizing his controversial (albeit effective) final shot than giving an explanation for his pessimistic, otherworldly sociological comment.

Copyright © 21.09.2010 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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