Livid - The blood of the ballerinas
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Livid - The blood of the ballerinas |
| Original title | Livide |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Alexandre Bustillo Julien Maury |
| script | Alexandre Bustillo Julien Maury |
| music | Raphael Gesquaz |
| camera | Laurent Barès |
| cut | Baxter |
| occupation | |
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Livid - The blood of the ballerinas (original title Livide , German corpse- pale , ashen ) is a French horror film by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury from 2011.
action
The young Lucie accompanies the experienced nurse Catherine on her tour to customers in need of care and is hoping for a job. In fact, she shows quite a talent and Catherine is very happy with her. However, Catherine does not want to take her companion into a remote mansion and asks her to wait in the car. However, the curious Lucie follows her and finds out that the landlady is a famous ballet master named Jessel, well over a hundred years old, who has been in a coma for a long time and who at the time instructed to continue life-support measures as long as possible. Catherine tells her that she is very wealthy and that a treasure is believed to be in her property.
In the evening, Lucie tells her friend, the day laborer William, and his brother, the bartender Ben, about their experiences and also tells about the ghostly Madame Jessel and the rumors about a treasure. William is immediately obsessed with the idea of breaking into the house of the single coma patient at night in order to steal the treasure and escape the precarious living situation in which he and his brother have found themselves in an impoverished working-class family since birth. At first Lucie refuses, shocked and angry, but thinks about it because her life is also marked by broken family relationships and poverty.
Late in the evening, the three break into Jessel's house and begin their search, which remains unsuccessful. Instead, they encounter all sorts of creepy obscurities and eventually discover that someone has locked them in the house. Windows and doors are firmly barricaded as if by magic. They also find Jesse's bed empty. A murderous night begins in which first Ben and then William fall victim to the bloodthirsty landlady and undead, young ballerinas. Meanwhile, Lucie finds out that Jessel had a daughter named Anna who was tormented by her fanatical mother during ballet training and who has been tortured as a life-size music box figure for years. She also finds out that the nurse Catherine is making common cause with Jessel and has obviously lured her into the house in order to be enslaved there. Together with Anna, with whom Lucie allies, they manage to overcome both Catherine and Jessel.
Reviews
"What begins as a social drama develops into a visually impressive, artistically ambitious horror thriller that plays with primal fears and celebrates horror in a fairytale-like setting."
background
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011 , and hit theaters in France a week later. Further screenings at international film festivals followed. The film was nominated for Best Director at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea . Livide was released in Germany on March 17, 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray.
Director Alexandre Bustillo had already achieved international success a few years earlier with the horror film Inside ( À l'intérieur , 2007).
Web links
- Livid - The blood of the ballerinas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Livid - The Blood of Ballerinas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 24, 2017 .