The scabrously-titled absurdist drama “Cook F**k Kill” from Slovak multihyphenate Mira Fornay is Examining unhealthy relationships, it’s structured as a prologue and three chapters, all of which make imaginative use of metaphor and anxiety-inducing images and framing. The stylized action sometimes brings to mind Swedish helmer Johannes Nyholm’s “Koko-di Koko-da,” also about a couple stuck in a damaging behavioral pattern. Overall, the film is a tad too long and definitely not for everyone, yet it is without doubt Fornay’s most ambitious and stimulating work. Festivals with adventurous programming venues should take note.
A 64-second prologue, featuring a Greek chorus of female villagers in swimsuits on the bank of a river recounting a fable to a figure in the water, manages to introduce many of the film’s key themes, concepts, and visuals. The folk tale that the women recite emphasizes how everything is interconnected and how...
A 64-second prologue, featuring a Greek chorus of female villagers in swimsuits on the bank of a river recounting a fable to a figure in the water, manages to introduce many of the film’s key themes, concepts, and visuals. The folk tale that the women recite emphasizes how everything is interconnected and how...
- 12/16/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
The film will have its world premiere at Tallinn’s Rebels With A Cause competition.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Czech director Mira Fornay’s new feature Cook F** Kill ahead of its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in its Rebels With A Cause competition.
The absurd drama explores political and social issues related to domestic abuse through the tale of an outwardly good-natured man who is a conniving and violent tormentor behind the closed doors of his family home.
Pathologically jealous of his wife and petrified that she is plotting to leave him,...
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Czech director Mira Fornay’s new feature Cook F** Kill ahead of its world premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in its Rebels With A Cause competition.
The absurd drama explores political and social issues related to domestic abuse through the tale of an outwardly good-natured man who is a conniving and violent tormentor behind the closed doors of his family home.
Pathologically jealous of his wife and petrified that she is plotting to leave him,...
- 11/25/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
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