Back in 2016 I called Nicolas Pesce's debut film 'The Eyes of My Mother' a horror masterpiece. It blew me away and I have been excited for his follow-up film ever since. 'Piercing' is quite a similar film in a lot of ways, but it couldn't quite live up to his previous film.
This is a bizarre and baffling film at times. I'm not sure I entirely understood it, but I'm also not sure whether I was supposed to understand it. On the surface the film sets up a very simple concept, but in reality it all becomes very complex and hard to follow. Usually being hard to understand is the death of a film and yet it wasn't on this occasion. I was still able to have a great time with it.
Somehow the film manages to be incredibly soothing and almost peaceful to watch. A combination of great dialogue, background music and acting make it this way. This is a very well put together film. It is listed as a horror film on IMDb currently but I would advise that it really isn't. At least not for the large majority of the runtime. This may not be a film for everyone, but I managed to throughly enjoy myself and I think most that watch it will be able to get at least something out of it.
This is a bizarre and baffling film at times. I'm not sure I entirely understood it, but I'm also not sure whether I was supposed to understand it. On the surface the film sets up a very simple concept, but in reality it all becomes very complex and hard to follow. Usually being hard to understand is the death of a film and yet it wasn't on this occasion. I was still able to have a great time with it.
Somehow the film manages to be incredibly soothing and almost peaceful to watch. A combination of great dialogue, background music and acting make it this way. This is a very well put together film. It is listed as a horror film on IMDb currently but I would advise that it really isn't. At least not for the large majority of the runtime. This may not be a film for everyone, but I managed to throughly enjoy myself and I think most that watch it will be able to get at least something out of it.