Calvaire

Calvaire

Some people would kill for company.

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Release Date

3/9/2005

Runtime

88 mins

Genres

Overview

A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

-

Revenue

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Homepage

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A trapped descent into escalating psychological and physical torment, where a stranded traveler becomes the unwilling obsession of increasingly deranged inhabitants. The film wraps brutal horror in an inescapable, surreal nightmare logic that only tightens its grip.

Mood

Dread-soakedUnsettlingClaustrophobicParanoid

Themes

IsolationObsessionComing apartSurvival

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDesaturated

Structure

Single location

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Calvaire (2005) directed by Fabrice Du Welz | FirstCinema