Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on April 26, 2014 at 16:07:56

of all time.
Two young brothers whose father largely is absent and uncaring are left with a grandmother. She has a special ferocity for one of the boys, thinking he wasn't fathered by her son.
There never has been made a more haunting film; it is done with a unique style, very much like a documentary, and makes any viewer detachment difficult, if not impossible.
If Dickens had lived in the twentieth century, and been a filmmaker, this is what his work would look like.