Vinyan |  | Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell, Petch Osathanugrah, Julie Dreyfus, Amporn Pankratok
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 31153
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 29746
UPC: 043396297463
EAN: 0043396297463
ASIN: B001QMCJ28
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: April 7, 2009
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Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-APR-2009
Media Type: DVD
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 22
 Bleak Yet Beautiful January 19, 2010
JJ LoveBeast (The House Beside the Last House on the Edge of Dead End Park)
A desperate couple's search for their missing child takes them from the uglier streets of Thailand deep into the Burmese jungle.
Slow-grinding, gorgeous but intensely grim psychological tale sporting some of the best performances in a 2009 horror film.
Very unnerving for those who allow it to be, but it's leisurely pace will likley infuriate many viewers.
 Avant-garde gone awry January 2, 2010
PsyRC (USA)
I completely get what the director was trying to do, and it was a mock-valiant effort on his part; the dark settings, the dream-like shots, and the faux-delusional performance by the main actress. The philosophical undertones are there, they just need to be dug out from beneath the hard-to-buy acting and set-ups. We are all interchangeable, at a physical and psychic level; in her state of utmost despair, Jeanne was hurdled into a psychotic state of mind, and very interestingly incorporating the semblance of delusional misidentification syndrome (namely, Fregoli syndrome); any and all of those children were Joshua. I do believe that this film could have gotten its point across, because the premise is actually appealing; unfortunately that was not enough to leave me with more than an empty sensation after it ended. The dude playing Paul was not believable, and his reactions to the bizarre situations arising were deadened by his own disbelief as an actor. Jeanne just figured that adopting the dead fish expression throughout the film would be sufficient, apart from a possible ripoff from the Piano Teacher with regards to the sex scene in which any and all human emotion has long abandoned her carcass. Now, the only crude emotion she displayed was during the final scene, and I believe this was not a scripted reaction; her smiling showed simply her obvious arousal with the situation, in a very primitive and sexualized manner, irrespective of any taboos people may have about the particular content. Again, it was the symbolic transfiguring into the literal, as the psychogenic bre*st was incorporated into the lives of children who had no healthy attachment to a caregiver, so we can look at the scene as a form of regression on their part, reacquiring the bre*st in an attempt to somehow be reborn through her... and she experienced the giving of life in this straining-to-be-poignant moment, and was thus reborn as well.
 probably the worst movie I've ever seen. December 27, 2009
Tamera Thomas
This movie was painful to watch. The only reason I kept watching was to see if the couple ever found their child. Well, that was a complete waste of time. The only memorable thing about this movie was the amount of tits shown & I will never get the image of about 20 young boys rubbing mud all over the lady & squeezing and groping her titties while she giggles and moans. Unless you are a pedophile, you will probably not like it.
Depends on what you're ready to see.............. December 24, 2009
Mike H. (Austin, TX)
Let's get this out of the way now.......this is a weird movie. Disturbing. Genuinely creepy. Is that a good thing? Depends on what you're ready to watch, and what your tastes are. I personally love weird indie films, and actively search them out. So not much surprises me anymore.
This movie surprised me.
I can honestly say I have never seen a film quite like this one. And that's really the basis of my 4-star rating. I'm not praising the movie, just stating a fact. I can fully, FULLY understand the negative reviews for this movie here. You may very well hate this movie, and not just casually. You might think it's a piece of irredeemable depressing garbage. You might love it. Either way you will not soon forget it. And that alone makes it worth seeing.
It also doesn't hurt that it is undeniably well acted and directed. There are shots after shots in this movie that are beautiful by any definition, however dark or pointless. If this movie succeeds at all it is as an unbelievably unnerving mood piece. As for the acting, the fact that Rufus Sewell (Dark City, The Illusionist, Bless the Child) doesn't get many leading roles seems to have forced him to become good at playing characters nearing the ends of various disturbed spirals. I really was not familiar with the leading lady Ms Beart before this film. Both of them present a portrait of parental loss taken to the most desperate extreme possible, and they do it well. Yet another reason it is worth seeing.
I probably won't ever feel the need to take this trip again, which might make you question why I'm telling you to take the trip now. As has been said many times already, this is a weird one. I've seen a lot of weird stuff in my day, and still this ranks among one of the most surreal and unique. And yet, it's never quite outside the range of believability. Some of the jungle/Thailand settings are almost hellish, and yet you feel that they probably do exist somewhere. Somewhere you hope you never go.
The ending is............controversial, to say the least.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to everyone I know, but if you have an open mind and don't always expect art to make you feel good inside, or have a nice tidy resolution, then I think there is a lot to appreciate here.
Well shot, plot weak November 30, 2009
Tommy Jeffers (Pana, IL United States)
This movie is very beautiful to look at. It captures misery very well. The jungle scenes are well done. It works very hard to be "artsy" but comes off a bit pretentious. The acting is decent for the fairly weak script. The horror comes from the atmosphere and the mood. Both serve to make this film "interesting" but not really "good."
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