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Review of by Hrodland C — 09 Apr 2008

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Take Misery and Deliverance and combine them with a foreign art film: you get something like The Ordeal (Calvaire). When I went in watching it, I treated like a typical horror movie. Not until the final scene did I realize I had watched something completely different.

Foolish me. I would really like to watch this movie again. It seems to have been told in three distinct parts: Pre-Bartel, Bartel, and Post-Bartel. Each one is terrifying in its own way. Good movie. I can't wait to watch it again with someone else.

If there's one thing I can take away from it right now, it's to never trust people from small villages. Ever.

This review of Calvaire (2005) was written by on 09 Apr 2008.

Calvaire has generally received mixed reviews.

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