Deep in the Woods

Deep in the Woods

2010 · 102 min · FR · 5.8 (18 votes)
Dir. Benoît Jacquot · Starring Isild Le Besco, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Jérôme Kircher, Bernard Rouquette, Mathieu Simonet, Jean-Pierre Gos · Music Bruno Coulais
DramaRomance

A wanderer named Timothee arrives in a French village in 1865 pretending to be deaf and mute. He uses tricks to hypnotize a beautiful young woman named Josephine and takes advantage of her until he is arrested and tried for his crimes.

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This film feels like a dark, unsettling fairy tale. It's a slow descent into a hypnotic, eerie atmosphere, exploring themes of manipulation and desire in a remote, isolated setting. The mood is thick with unspoken dread and melancholic beauty.

eerieunsettlingmelancholichypnoticslow-burnperiod dramaarthousepsychological thrilleratmosphericdeceptionmanipulationdesireisolation
torturehypnotizebewitchment
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