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2010 French film
Mortem
Directed byEric Atlan
Written byEric Atlan
Marie-Claude Dazun
StarringDaria Panchenko
Diana Rudychenko
Stany Coppet
Hortense Gelinet
Sophie Gelinet
Jean-Luc Masson
Production
companies		Rainbow Melodies
Artistic Finances
Capson
Swap
Sylicone
Transpalux
Distributed byNew Distributors Association (France)
R-Squared Films (United States and Canada)
Digital Media Rights (United States)
BigStar.tv (United States)
Running time94 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Mortem is a French experimental film directed by Eric Atlan and first screened at the Oaxaca International Film Festival in 2010 before receiving a limited theatrical release in 2012. Reminiscent of Persona and Mulholland Drive, the film follows a young woman who defies her own death.

Reception

Mortem generally received mixed to negative reviews from critics. The Village Voice stated that "The initial scenes, thick with creep-show ambiance, promise more fulfilling madness than what actually transpires once the out-of-nowhere second guest reveals who she is." The New York Times compared the film's aesthetic to that of Jean Cocteau, but gave a similarly lukewarm review as The Village Voice, stating that "Most often Mortem just lacks bite, and the dedicated leads seem at times a little slight for the staging of a struggle at eternity's edge." Time Out New York awarded the film one star out of five and described it as "excruciatingly bad". Slant Magazine gave the film a largely negative review, opining that the film "too readily abandons its noir framework for the sweeping meta-narrative about desire's link to thanatos, and in so doing, leaves too little room for guesswork." Film Journal International stated that "This initially bewitching throwback to the French New Wave and Cocteau turns into a turgid and frequently laughable pseudo-philosophical locked-room argument between a woman and her soul."

References

  1. Scherstuhl, Alan (April 24, 2013). "(Hot) Soul Mounts (Hot) Body in Mortem". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2015-06-09. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  2. Rapold, Nicolas (April 25, 2013). "'Mortem,' a Stylistic Visit to Cocteau's Oeuvre – The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  3. Rothkopf, Joshua (April 23, 2013). "Mortem: movie review (2012)". Time Out. Archived from the original on 2017-12-02. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  4. Bittencourt, Ela (February 23, 2012). "Film Comment Selects 2012: Mortem". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. Retrieved April 19, 2024.
  5. "Film Review: Mortem". Film Journal International. April 29, 2013. Archived from the original on 2017-11-27. Retrieved April 19, 2024.

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