A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
The Doll is showing in 1 cinema in London - next screening Sunday 18 October at 20:15 at The Nickel Cinema.
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Drenched in claustrophobic shadows and creaky interiors, a man imagines his stolen mannequin has come to life, a companion and a lover. It's a somber portrait of paranoia as much as perversion, though there's that as well, as is the specter of Norman Bates. The psychosis of loneliness, the dark Id of Brothers Grimm.
Easily the first draw of the film is the atmospheric positioning that everything is centered within. The whole world is immersed in shadows and isolation as our central character Lundgren submits to his own delirium. Now I won't lie that the film was easily what I was expecting, but that necessarily doesn't have to be a bad thing as the picture was considerably done within its intentions. A interesting film that probably shouldn't fly under the radar like it does.
Seltsam, klaustrophobisch, bizarr, unheimlich……..Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Psycho, auf alle Fälle schwer einzuordnen und teilweise auch etwas sperrig und schwer zugänglich. Aber gerade diese Komponenten machen hier den Reiz aus. Auf alle Fälle ein äußerst atmosphärisches Psychodrama über Paranoia, soziale Isolation/Einsamkeit und die daraus resultierende Obsession.Für Fans von Repulsion (Ekel) und dem Kino von Ingmar Bergman am ehesten geeignet, der Rest könnte hier sehr schnell das Weite suchen.
A lonely nightwatchman steals a department store mannequin, taking her home where his growing isolation blurs the line between reality and delusion.
Arne Mattsson directed the 1962 psychological drama, known for his atmospheric and tense filmmaking style.
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