When a film begins with a search for people who have disappeared in kind, the spectator the least insightful suspects that the rest will not be easy …
The Australian screenwriter and director then introduces us Tim (Franco) and Millie (Brie), a duo of mid-three-year-old who is preparing to leave the big city, where a pantocian dream of a popular musician, for the forest of a village, chased him, where she pursues her career as a primary professor.
The feast of departure, with friends, leaves little doubts that the couple cracks – there is a particularly unwilling scene for Millie where the fear of TIM’s commitment appears in the open …
Franco (Love and bloodthe three Elusive) and Brie (A young woman full of promises, Single, user manual), married for a long time in the “real” life, therefore slip into the shoes of this duo on the edge of the implosion.
Their alter ego decides, shortly after their arrival, to explore a path that sinks into the forest. Fleeing the thunderstorm, they drop into a cavity as the night falls. Drink an unknown source? Never a good idea …
When they wake up, two of their legs are “stuck”. Really. And this is only the beginning.
Inseparable Inspires directly from an allegory developed by Plato in The banquet (380 BC). Human beings, originally, had four legs, four arms and one head with two faces. Zeus, fearing their power, would have cut them in half. Condemning them to seek “a soul mate”.
Under his air of fantastic horror drama, with some humorous connections, Inseparable Explore with acuity the notions of fusional desire and co -depence.
We are not at Bergman, far from it, the fact remains that his portrait of a couple who interprets two different partitions remains very relevant.
Michael Shanks get a little getting into his brushes in the last part (more grotesque and weird), but Franco and Brie are so authentic, both in love and dread, that it is easy to go beyond.
The filmmaker offers, for a first feature film, a realization in the note, in particular with a beautiful work on the sound atmosphere and particularly successful special effects. A realization not original, but adequate. Especially in the rise of tension.
Inseparableeven if he quotes Alien (Scott, 1979) et The exorcist (Friedkin, 1973), is resolutely part of the new current of “horror” films paying into the psychosocial drama (as When falls at night by Trey Edward Shults or Get Out by Jordan Peele). There are also airs of Midsummer (Ari Aster), for pagan rites.
The most obvious rapprochement remains the excellent La substance (Coralie Fargeat): body horrorbut less bloody.
You are warned!
Inseparable is presented at the cinema.
In the credits
- Cote: 7 / 10
- Titre: Inseparable
- Genre: Fantastic horror
- Realization: Michael Shanks
- Distribution: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Damon Herriman
- Duration: 1 h 42
