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After a nasty breakup with his girlfriend (Lorella Marques), a trip to
the country to write about a bead and breakfast that's about to open in
the middle of nowhere seems like just what the doctor has ordered for
Adrien (Julien Botzanowski). However, Adrien seems not too welcome from
early on, as the lady of the house Agathe (Anouchka Csernakova) is a bit
on the strict side, the owner Pierre (Serge Barbagallo) is a bit too
detached, only the maid Hélène (Capucine Lamarque) seems nice, but also
always a bit bewildered - which is no big surprise even as the place is a
bit on the spooky side: Things disappear, electronic equipment only rarely
works properly, and there's a sense of gloom over the place. And
eventually, after a night of drinking together with Adrien, Hélène just
disappears disappears, and when Adrien goes looking for her, he's attacked
by Pierre and Agathe, overcome, tied up - and he learns their horrible
secret, and how he and Hélène are going to become part of it ... True,
the first two acts of Rutabaga are rather slow-moving, but in being
so manage to build a proper atmosphere of dread and unease, without giving
the audience much of a clue as to where the film is headed while leaving
one guessing throughout. And as a result, the finale really packs a punch,
bringing the film to a proper solution without explaining much of anything
away and creeping the viewer out in the process. In other words, a
well-structured and executed film that avoids bluntness for maximum effect
- and of course, a solid cast only helps to bring this across. Pretty cool
genre entertainment, actually.
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