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His latest piece of music transports a modern day composer (Danny
Ashkenasi) back to the dark ages where he's taken captive by the
inquisition, tried (by himself as it is), thrown into a pitch dark dungeon
where he almost falls into a bottomless pit, then tied to a rack beneath
an ever descending pendulum with a blade mounted to its end to cut up our
unlucky hero, and finally he sees the walls literally closing in on him,
driving him to the bottomless pit should he not want to be crushed.
However, what the composer only imagines has also consequences in the real
world ... Now Edgar Allan Poe's original story The
Pit and the Pendulum isn't so much a story of narrative
finesse as it is a description of the terrors of torture, and thus doesn't
lend itself all too well to cinematic adaptations - which in turn means
that those who have tried (and there were quite a few over the years)
usually take quite some artistic licence with the source material. Danny
Ashkenasi has taken a different route though and has remained fairly
faithful to Poe's story but put it into a narrative context via his
framing story, as well as setting everything to music, so much so that
some of Poe's words are actually sung on screen. And this works remarkably
well, as not only does Ashkenasi hit the right note when it comes to the
film's mood, he also enriches the story with nightmarish and often surreal
imagery, often goes for associative rather than linear storytelling, and
ultimately delivering and enjoyably disturbing piece of cinema.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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