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Calvaire

Country: Belgium, Language: French, 88 mins

Original Title

The Ordeal
  • Director: Fabrice Du Welz
  • Writer: Fabrice Du Welz; Romain Protat
  • Producer: Michael Gentile; Eddy Géradon-Luyckx

CGiii Comment

Take Deliverance and Misery - add a few Belgian psychopaths and you have a rather disturbing cinematic feast.

The photography is stunning, the acting is on par - this is more psychological than horror and it will leave you asking more questions than it answers.

Memorable - perhaps, for all the wrong reasons - male rape, bestiality...

This is what nightmares are really made of - twisted and compelling.


Trailer...

 

The(ir) Blurb...

A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn; the owner gives Marc a room for the night. Next day, the innkeeper, Mr. Bartel, promises to fix the van, demands that Marc not visit the nearby village, and goes through Marc's things while the entertainer takes a walk. At dinner that night, Bartel laments his wife's having left him, and by next day, Marc is in a nightmare that may not end.

Cast & Characters

Laurent Lucas as Marc Stevens;
Brigitte Lahaie as Mademoiselle Vicky;
Gigi Coursigny as Madame Langhoff;
Jean-Luc Couchard as Boris;
Jackie Berroyer as Bartel;
Philippe Nahon as Robert Orton;
Philippe Grand'Henry as Tomas Orton;
Jo Prestia as Fermier Mylene;
Marc Lefebvre as Lucien;
Alfred David as Roland;
Alain Delaunois as Gaant;
Vincent Cahay as Stan Le Pianiste;
Johan Meys as Rosto;
Romain Protat as Figurant Dans Le Bar;
Damien Waselle as Figurant Dans Le Bar