Martyrs

Pascal Laugier20081h 39mHorror

Why we chose it

A young Xavier Dolan, not yet a director, is in the cast of this cult horror, one of the most brutal films of the New French Extremity, though none of its violence is gratuitous. A woman returns, gun in hand, to the family who abducted and tortured her years before.

Synopsis

Lucie is a child in 1971 when she’s abducted and locked in a cellar for more than a year, until she finally manages to escape. Nobody is ever convicted. Fifteen years later she’s standing at the door of a suburban house with a shotgun, certain that the people who live there are the ones who took her.

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Production year: 2008
Decade: 2000s
Duration: 1h 39m
Genre: Horror
Language: French
Country: France, Canada
Subtitles: Greek, Polish
Age rating: 18+

Sitges Film Festival

Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film

2008

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