| Martyrs |
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| Directed by Pascal Laugier |
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Dated 29th September 2009
R 18+ High impact violence and torture themes
Blu Ray out 9th December! |
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France. A night at the beginning of the 1970‘s. Lucie, a little girl missing for over a year, is discovered wandering by the side of a country road. Near catatonic, she can say nothing about what has happened to her. The police quickly find the place in which she‘s been incarcerated – a disused slaughterhouse. Every indication is that she never once left the empty, freezing room in which she was imprisoned. Filthy, starving, dehydrated something strange and terrible has happened. But what? And what terrible consequences will it bear?
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| 'Technically brilliant, emotionally resonant' TotalFilm.com |
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| A lot of big claims have been made for Pascal Laugier’s psychological and physiological horror film. The best this, the most that.Read on... |
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| 'Martyrs a masterful work of cinema' Synergy magazine |
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Martyrs is truly a unique experience. It is harrowing,
confronting and visceral...The ending is astounding and leaves us pause to think. The way in which a range of themes are interwoven together to create a challenging and thought provoking film is impressive. The acting is superb, the score is haunting and the cinematography excellent.Read more.. |
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| 'You're either going to love it or hate it' The Plurp |
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| As I thought about a possible question to ask Pascal Laugier, director of Martyrs, a film that will soon be infamous, I realized that the uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach had yet to subside. Quite possibly the longest ninety-seven minutes in horror film history, Laugier has managed in every way to push boundaries to a point where the frighteningly staged reality of what you see on screen threatens to become unbearable.Read on.. |
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| Melbourne International Film Festival SBS.com |
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| Given the shocking reputation that has followed Martyrs since its 2008 Cannes screening, ‘A soulful, profound meditation on the human condition’ is not the conclusion I was expecting to draw after viewing it, wide-eyed and mouth agape, at the 2009 Melbourne Film Festival.Read more |
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