DVD Review: Ring Finger, The: Olga Kurylenko, Marc Barbe, Stipe Erceg, Edith Scob, Diane Bertrand: Movies & TV
DVD Review: Ring Finger, The: Olga Kurylenko, Marc Barbe, Stipe Erceg, Edith Scob, Diane Bertrand: Movies & TVASIN=B00276L4TG&
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Iris (Olga Kurylenko of QUANTUM OF SOLACE) is twenty years old and works on the assembly line of a fizzy drink factory. One day, she loses the tip of her ring finger in an industrial injury, leading her to quit her job and move to the port city nearby. Wandering the town, Iris comes across a laboratory of a very peculiar kind, where she is engaged as an assistant. Clients come in regularly, bringing with them all sorts of personal belongings they want processed and preserved forever in the laboratory. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, Iris gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
“The Ring Finger”,
By Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas) -
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)
“The Ring Finger” (”L’annulaire”)
“The Ring Finger”
Amos Lassen
The film “The Ring Finger” is an adaptation of a Japanese novel by Yoko Ogawa and is directed and written by Diane Bertrand. The film is sumptuous to the eye and the beautiful Olga Kurylendo is wonderful as a factory worker who takes a desk job after her finger is almost severed in the factory. As Iris, Kurylendo shines. After her near accident she becomes the receptionist to a man (Marc Barbe) who is able to transform any of his client’s mementos into things of beauty and puts them on display in a museum. Iris’s job is very strange and becomes even stranger when her boss requires her to wear red high-heeled shoes to work. Iris and the man soon become involved in a relationship and Iris, at the same time, is intrigued by a sailor with whom she shares a room with for economical purposes.
It is the cinematography of the film that saves it and the movie appears to be very intimate. To me, the film was a merger of the contemplative Asian cinema with the sexual energy of European films. There is little dialogue and we get to know the characters through the looks that they share with each other and with us. This is a bit more than a movie–it is an experience but be prepared the movie moves slowly and at times it just doesn’t seem to move at all.
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