Borgman
Borgman is one of those head-scratching “what what?” movies which would be entirely transformed if the writer/director gave us access to a vital piece of missing information. But Alex van Warmerdam doesn’t, and so we watch and try to piece together what’s going on from clues scattered throughout, like following Hansel and Gretel’s trail through the woods. A Grimm’s fairytale atmosphere, dark and potentially lethal, pervades this Netherlands film from 2013 – and it comes as no real surprise to discover that the director once made a film called Grimm, and then went back and re-worked it some years down the line, so this is clearly more than a passing fascination (note to … Read more