A couple running from something break into a cabin in the mountains. The movie never tells us what. They find directions on how to get electricity by putting rocks in a stream and get that running. There is also running water. Somehow there is an endless supply of cigarettes and alcohol, which they help themselves to. They help themselves to the guns and ammunition there, also. They encounter a stranger who doesn't speak their language and let him stay there. There isn't much of a story or ending. I gave it a five because of the scenery.
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If Patience be Your Virtue then Do Not Pass on "Beyond Here"
jtncsmistad18 February 2018
There's something lurking through the pass on the other side of the mountains. Who, or what, is it? This is the mystery that you may or may not solve if you choose to venture "Beyond Here", a most unconventional and arresting independent production from the Czech Republic.
Basile and Lea are a young couple on the run in the high country wilderness. From and to what is never made entirely clear. But the sense of urgency is palpable, much more so for him than for her. They come upon an abandoned house and take refuge. About half way through the film enters an enigmatic drifter name Marcus. At first skeptical and afraid, the pair gradually accept this crusty coon into their transitory home.
It is at this point that the tenor of the story changes. I am nobody's shrink, but I'll take a shot at what I perceived began to happen. Writer/Director Hugo Bousquet seems to introduce Marcus as a challenge, both physical and symbolic, to Basile's masculinity as well as his emotional stability. Ultimately I saw this as Basile's personal battle with his male identity and his mental health.
The imagery and music in "Beyond Here" are of the highest order. Cinematographer Fiona Braillon consistently captures spectacularly spellbinding images of a rocky terrain, presenting the remote natural setting as at once beautiful and brutal. The tandem of Goulven Derrien and Joris Vidal score a sonic underbed saturated in the haunting, unsettling and ominous. The masterful and moody electric guitar work of Yohan Roudy especially pierces.
If you need to have your movie's tied up in a neat little bow at the end, stay away from "Beyond Here". But if you're at all capable of interpreting that which you can only hear but can not see, this contemplatively trippy conclusion will very likely resonate as more cathartic than confounding.
Or, as in the case of this critic, it'll be a bit of both.
Basile and Lea are a young couple on the run in the high country wilderness. From and to what is never made entirely clear. But the sense of urgency is palpable, much more so for him than for her. They come upon an abandoned house and take refuge. About half way through the film enters an enigmatic drifter name Marcus. At first skeptical and afraid, the pair gradually accept this crusty coon into their transitory home.
It is at this point that the tenor of the story changes. I am nobody's shrink, but I'll take a shot at what I perceived began to happen. Writer/Director Hugo Bousquet seems to introduce Marcus as a challenge, both physical and symbolic, to Basile's masculinity as well as his emotional stability. Ultimately I saw this as Basile's personal battle with his male identity and his mental health.
The imagery and music in "Beyond Here" are of the highest order. Cinematographer Fiona Braillon consistently captures spectacularly spellbinding images of a rocky terrain, presenting the remote natural setting as at once beautiful and brutal. The tandem of Goulven Derrien and Joris Vidal score a sonic underbed saturated in the haunting, unsettling and ominous. The masterful and moody electric guitar work of Yohan Roudy especially pierces.
If you need to have your movie's tied up in a neat little bow at the end, stay away from "Beyond Here". But if you're at all capable of interpreting that which you can only hear but can not see, this contemplatively trippy conclusion will very likely resonate as more cathartic than confounding.
Or, as in the case of this critic, it'll be a bit of both.
Another silly French movie
fredrickinps7 April 2022
Another silly French movie from beginning to end.
It makes no sense whatsoever. I gave a 5 stars review for the landscapes filmed and the actors that are not too bad. However, the storyline makes no sense and I dislike these movies with no end. Such a frustrating waste of time.
It makes no sense whatsoever. I gave a 5 stars review for the landscapes filmed and the actors that are not too bad. However, the storyline makes no sense and I dislike these movies with no end. Such a frustrating waste of time.
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