56. CRIMSON RIVERS (Les Rivières Pourpres

CRIMSON RIVERS (Les Rivieres Pourpres)

Language    -   French (France)
Genre          -   Psychological Thriller
Director       -  Mathew Kassovitz 
*ing             -  Jeno Reno (Pierrie Niemans), Vincent Cassel (Max Kerkerian)

PLOT

                            Detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a University village in the footsteps of French Alps. He is tasked to investigate the murder of Professor and Librarian Remy Caillois, whose corpse was found at a height of 50m from the ground in a fetal position (just like a child in the foetus) with amputated hands, bruises all over the body and some removed eyeballs from the socket. At the same time in an another place Inspector Max visits two crime spots with break-in into a cemetery of Judith Herault and a break-in into a school where  the archive of Judith also went missing, he came to know that she was died in an accident at the age of 10, but when he approaches her mother she told him that her daughter was chased by demons and asked him to save his soul from the demons. Killings continues, mysteries remained, did both cases lead to same person?

                                                         Crimson Rivers is 2000 French psychological thriller, it’s a pure piece of work that is loyal to its genre. There is psycho, there is barbaric killings, there is dark, rain, pounding backgrounds, everything you need for a psychological thriller. Corpses used in the movie are made of latex, it gives the genuine feel for the audiences and shows the brutality of the killer. Cinematography and locations are the other two elements that makes this movie as a special one, you will fall in love with the beauty of Alps. Even though its as edge of the seat thriller, it has some confusions in the climax. There is not enough explanation in some scenes. Even Vincent Cassel, the main actor told that "I can't help explain the film because I didn't understand it! We cut out everything in the film that was explanatory, therefore 'boring' [according to the director]. You end up with a film that's not boring but you don't understand it [at] all”. But I don’t agree with that phrase completely, it’s a must watch movie for all those whose love investigative thrillers.