Review of Endorphine (2015) by Tor M — 29 Dec 2016

This film started as a bang. Fantastic editing, superb shots, and a mysterious - yet very real story. Time-skipping, dreaming and a murder are key ingredients.

I like the way the film develops and I'm thinking this will turn out a solid 8 rating. Sadly it turns. It feels dragged and the exciting 40 first minutes are followed by less interesting scenes, and they also feel more repitative. It still looks swell, it even got some highlight scenes in forms of semi-shockers and nastiness, but I'm not that interested anymore. That's sad actually, especially since it only lasts for 80 minutes or so.

André Turpin - the director, is mostly known for his work with Denis Villeneuve, being the cinematographer of "Incendies" and a more unknown gem of his, "Maelström". He also shot "Mommy" by Dolan and I find all the mentioned films brilliantly photographed. This one is too - it's strongest feature. It looks absolutely lovely.

Artsy, deep and not easy too understand, but it's not necessarily ment to be understood. It's about taking it in. It works, but not perfectly I'm afraid. It reminds me of mentioned "Maelström" along with "Under The Skin" and "Upstream Color" but it never hit's the spot like they did.

The original music is cool, but the only feature that "I Monster" track is so very cool. I believe it was in "Mr. Nobody" too, at least the original track. Cool music, great filming, lovely tones and a great first half is resulting in a solid score, but it could have been a lot better with few, light modifications.

6 out of 10 faintings.