Czech Republic’s ‘Repulse’ sinks the audience into an extended exercise in trauma that turns to brevity and non-linear storytelling to amplify its pain.
“You can do whatever you want.”
“What do I want?”
Screams of anguish are the only forms of dialogue that are present in the first ten minutes of Repulse, Emil Krizka’s ode to anger and revenge from the Czech Republic. Repulse is intentionally sparse with its dialogue so that the raw weight of every gesture and groan speak for themselves. It’s an isolating tactic, but one that immediately establishes that the world is a harsh, angry, confusing place. It’s a grim mission statement, but one that reverberates through every single frame of Emil Krizka’s Repulse.
Repulse is one big Russian nesting doll of pain, torture, and humility that only grows more toxic as the film digs deeper and casts a wider net.
“You can do whatever you want.”
“What do I want?”
Screams of anguish are the only forms of dialogue that are present in the first ten minutes of Repulse, Emil Krizka’s ode to anger and revenge from the Czech Republic. Repulse is intentionally sparse with its dialogue so that the raw weight of every gesture and groan speak for themselves. It’s an isolating tactic, but one that immediately establishes that the world is a harsh, angry, confusing place. It’s a grim mission statement, but one that reverberates through every single frame of Emil Krizka’s Repulse.
Repulse is one big Russian nesting doll of pain, torture, and humility that only grows more toxic as the film digs deeper and casts a wider net.
- 10/18/2022
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
The film comes from the team behind web series ‘#martyisdead’.
Netherlands-based sales firm Dutch Features has acquired world rights on Emil Krizka’s Czech horror Repulse at this week’s online European Film Market (EFM).
The film is writer-director Krizka’s feature debut, and is a dark drama about two dysfunctional families: one raising their daughter in a luxurious villa, the other an adult son and his mother sharing a remote semi-dilapidated house.
Repulse has its world premiere at Febiofest in Prague in September 2021, followed by a limited release in the Czech Republic; the full release will come in spring of this year.
Netherlands-based sales firm Dutch Features has acquired world rights on Emil Krizka’s Czech horror Repulse at this week’s online European Film Market (EFM).
The film is writer-director Krizka’s feature debut, and is a dark drama about two dysfunctional families: one raising their daughter in a luxurious villa, the other an adult son and his mother sharing a remote semi-dilapidated house.
Repulse has its world premiere at Febiofest in Prague in September 2021, followed by a limited release in the Czech Republic; the full release will come in spring of this year.
- 2/16/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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