A Spell to Ward off the Darkness

2015 • 98 minút

Tento film

A Spell to Ward off the Darkness follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway. Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort.

Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (best known for his intense live performances under the name LICHENS) in the lead role, A Spell to Ward off the Darkness lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction - it is at once a document of experience and an experience itself, an inquiry into transcendence that sees the cinema as a site for transformation.

Hodnotenia a recenzie

The worst kind of pretentious bullshit, the boring kind. And just because you mar the solitude and stillness by so called black metal does not miraculously make your film meaningful. It only makes you a twat for thinking so.

frustratingly pretentious