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Peter
13Mar12
where to begin... my advice would be: experience it. stay until the end. ask yourself: has Elina Löwensohn ever been lovelier than she is in this film? ask yourself: how is it possible that such ugly images can be so beautiful? ask yourself: how could the narrative have possibly gotten from point A to point B? ask yourself: when was the last time you heard Bauhaus in a soundtrack? ask yourself: WTF is it with the bicycle race?
dschank
11Jan12
as uncomfortable as i am with calling a film about a serial rapist/murder "impressionistic," that's really the way to describe it. grandrieux sets aside the moral histrionics, moneyshots and audience manipulation that usually attends "shock cinema" in favor of something peculiar and potent. <i>sombre</i> aestheticizes awful acts, but the lens it uses to do so is unlike all others. essential, if you can stomach it.
Magnus Alexander Nikolaisen
31May10
I have ambivalent feelings about this film. Visually amazing and fascinating! The visual style and the sound effects truly created a original and nasty mood! But the film really made me unwell, and I never developed sympathy or engagement with the characters - I just wanted to get out of the nightmare. And I never want to enter it again!
Edwin N
2May10
Sombre's darkness, it's intensity and high ambiguity is simply amazing to watch. A poem, a dream, something bigger than cinema perhaps. Grandrieux is a filmmaker of the sense, he captures souls and expands minds, Grandrieux is a poet, a beast, a master. And Sombre is one of the most beautiful creations of the history of cinema.