"Krvavy Roman" is based on the book called "A Sanguinary Novel" written by famous Czech painter,typographer,author and philosopher Josef Vachal.He tries to put several stories into his novel.The stories which are delightfully weird and bloody.The use of colors in "Krvavy Roman" is particularly impressive for example we see red,green,brown,mauve and even black & white.The film looks like an outlandish fairy tale with nudity and occasional bursts of gore.The location sets are surreal and look like paintings.The piano/violin score is wonderfully melancholic.The gore is awesome for example we see fingers severed with a knife or multiple decapitations.7 pirates out of 10.An unique viewing experience.
2 Reviews
''It is evident that a plot is hatching in this Amsterdam pub.''
punishmentpark23 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
A wonderfully complex story that is as much dark as it is comical, with at the center the writer (who is writing a book, the stories of which are told in the rest of the film), who is eventually visited by some of the characters he himself created. It is stylized as an old silent film, but at times the actors 'break character' and speak out loud, as there are other sounds from time to time as well. Each storyline is in a different color and in the end all of them are connected, even if some natives have to dance through the earth to the other side... This is total insanity with beer dripping caves, bleeding books, an enchanting muse whose fingers are chopped off and then put back on again, and so on and so forth, with nudity and gore to spare. The settings are wonderful, many of them (most likely) inspired by German Expressionists long ago.
Storywise it is rather impossible (for me, after only two viewings) to completely unravel things, so the genre mystery certainly applies here as well, I think. Horror, love (unrequited or other), humour, tragedy, death and vile plots go down a plenty in this absolute adventure of a film.
A big 8 out of 10 (to be continued).
Storywise it is rather impossible (for me, after only two viewings) to completely unravel things, so the genre mystery certainly applies here as well, I think. Horror, love (unrequited or other), humour, tragedy, death and vile plots go down a plenty in this absolute adventure of a film.
A big 8 out of 10 (to be continued).
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