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25 January 2012 #411

The Fridae Movie Club wishes all its readers a happy Lunar New Year, especially to those from Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities.

In the midst of the festivities, our pick for the first half of your two-week holiday is The Monk. A French adaptation of an English Gothic novel set in mediaeval Spain, The Monk is a claustrophobic horror thriller that pays heed to the old school philosophy of "frighten but don't show". French leading man Vincent Cassel stars as a virtuous monk whose very soul it seems the devil himself has taken a personal interest in.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

The Monk

A moody, skilfull horror with the right amount of ambiguity to be something deeper. Matthew Lewis' late 18th-Century Gothic horror novel gets a new French adaptation from director Dominik Moll (Lemming) and stars Vincent Cassel as the eponymous character, one Brother Ambrosio in a Capuchin monastery in 17th-Century Spain. Moll adds appropriate touches of the surreal to the goings-on, especially leavening the Gothic horror with the Val Lewton-esque ambiguity of the sort seen in cult horrors like I Walked With A Zombie and Curtis Harrington's Night Tide.

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