Blood of Others Reviews

Some of the cinematography and location shots in this are easy on the eye but for the most part it's a poorly balanced and choppy abbreviation of Simone de Beauvoir's acclaimed book.

The dialogue is in English when French is the only logical choice (some of us don't mind reading subtitles and getting free language lessons) and at least one of the players could have spoken her lines unassisted. Instead we hear "geddowdahere" from her which was cringeworthy.

The sound quality is very variable with outdoor scenes that sound like they're spoken in a carpeted room. Tsk. Bergman (Sam Neill) oscillated between overdone and sinisterly intense as he obsessed over (the vacuuously self-obsessed) Hélène (Jodie Foster) which was probably truly creepy for her.

The ending is plain annoying.