Berlinale Special
INFINITY POOL
the Brandon Cronenberg
with Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Jalil Lespert, Cleopatra Coleman, Adam Boncz, Thomas Kretschmann, Amanda Brugel, John Ralston…
Our first impression of the film:
Presented in the Berlinale Special section, the new film by Brandon Cronenberg (Grand Prix de Gérardmer two years ago with “Possessor“) starts from a brilliant idea. In a country known to be dangerous, tourists are parked in large secure hotels by the sea, from which they are not supposed to leave. Let’s meet another more adventurous couple, a writer in lack of inspiration and his wife let themselves be taken on a car trip, which turns out badly on the way back, since tipsy, the man knocks over a room and finds himself condemned. he prison film, here is where the fantastic makes its intrusion: what if the local government offers you, for a substantial sum of money, to create a double for your execution.
On the theme of the double, already widely exploited by Cronenberg senior (notably in the cult “False pretenses“), Brendan Cronenberg questions the absence of limits (since “forgiveness” can be eternal) and the capacity of man to commit acts, outside of all morality. If the journey is interesting, and the performers in tune of the feeling of madness that sets in (Mia Goth, in particular, incredible news in the register of provocation), the effects to which the directors are now accustoming us (stroboscopy, successions of evocative images, etc.) have no real And what can also be read at different levels (particularly with regard to writer’s block) ultimately finds no real outcome.
Watch the trailer for the movie “Infinity Pool”:
