A completely confusing story. I found myself throughout the film trying to decipher what the director wanted us to understand but I had trouble understanding even at the end. Unlike other films that I did not understand the end like Lost Highway (I understood that it was a film that deserved to be reviewed a second time to understand) but for this film I do not think it will help me to see more clearly. The trailer was strange, the film even more so. The film wants to be implicit voluntarily but instead create a kind of confusion with this kid who smells odors and seems to be transported to another time. This results in a rather disjointed writing with sequences that seem to be just an excuse to see Johanne in cleavage or scantily dressed. We also talk about sex in the film, something that I appreciate. We also understand that there is a secret relationship between Julia and Johanne. I felt completely confused. A story that has neither head nor tail. Then at the end the young girl we see, I don't understand who she is. In short, an implicit film and not so cerebral as that but simply confused in its transmission. Rather disappointing.
Review of The Five Devils
