***SPOILERS*** Take 1 part Schindler's List, 1 part The Poseidon Adventure, and 1 part Blindness and what do you get? In Darkness. And don't mistake me for someone who doesn't like foreign films; I see many each year, European in particular. In In Darkness, the screenwriters rely far too much on coincidence to heighten dramatic impact. For example, when the lead character is taking his daughter to her first communion, it just so happens that there's a huge storm which forces him to make a choice: save the lives of the 10 Jewish people he's 'caring' for in the sewers or remain with his wife and daughter. His wife leaves him for choosing the former (and in the very next scene, rejoins him). This is but one example of many in this film. Technically, the camera work during the first 30 minutes was so jittery, I nearly felt seasick. Provincial, lugubrious, contrived to the extreme, and maudlin, In Darkness is a minor work beside Schindler's List or The White Ribbon.
Review of In Darkness
