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Dir: Fabrice Du Welz.
Cast: Emmanuelle Beart, Rufus Sewell, Julie Dreyfus, Petch Osathanugrah
Description: Paul and his wife Jeanne are devastated when their young son is swept away by the 2005 tsunami in Thailand. In the absence of a body, the couple remains in Phuket, where Jeanne clings desperately to the idea that the boy is still alive and has been kidnapped by human traffickers. As Jeanne's mental state deteriorates, Paul pays the mysterious Mr Gao to take them to the Thai-Burmese border where pirates operate.
Country: FR/UK/BELG. 2008. 95mins
Heart of darkness: Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle B�art are searching for their son in the jungle of the Thai-Burmese border
Stunning location work and two performances of considerable force distinguish Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz�s English-language second feature. It�s a dark and pessimistic drama which goes slap-happily mad towards the end but keeps you watching all the same.
Emmanuelle B�art and Rufus Sewell play the protagonists � a couple devastated by the loss of their son in the 2005 tsunami but, since the body was never found, hoping against hope that he is alive. The wife, in particular, refuses to believe he is dead, especially when she watches a video of boys kidnapped by traffickers in the chaos that followed the catastrophe.
The pair have remained in Phuket where she persuades her sceptical husband to pay first a local petty crook and then a sinister boatman to take them into the pirate-infested no-man�s-land of the Thai-Burmese border. It is permanently raining and the jungle is dangerous. Each step they take into the unknown necessitates another dollop of money for their guides.
Beno�t Debie shoots the scene brilliantly and both the increasingly desperate wife and the desolately cynical husband are portrayed with terrifying realism. The boys they find huddled under makeshift shelters are, of course, not theirs. �Does it matter?� says their guide when one of them stretches out his arms to B�art, who instantly rejects him. �It�s a child, isn�t it?�
What then happens pitches the film into a nightmare that in the end destroys the real horror of the story. There can be nothing but praise for the performances of both B�art and Sewell, and Du Welz is clearly a talented director � but his attempt to engineer a ghostly, supernatural ending pushes his movie into the realms of arrant melodrama.
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