Visions (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Visions

VISIONS (2023)

Starring Diane Kruger, Mathieu Kassovitz, Marta Nieto, Amira Casar, Grégory Fitoussi, Élodie Navarre, Adrien Malvoisin, Laurent Marion, Romain Fleury, Paco Perez, Hugo Possamai, Pierre Lebrun, Benjamin Lauff, Marc Prin, Aleksandra Yermak, Nathalie Richard, Philippe Maymat, Solène Cornu, Charlotte Darragon, Christophe Istier and Thierry Flamand.

Screenplay by  Michel Fessler & Aurélie Valat & Jean-Baptiste Delafon & Yann Gozlan.

Directed by Yann Gozlan.

Distributed by Dark Sky Films. 123 minutes. Not Rated.

This French psychological horror film stars Diane Kruger (National Treasure, Inglourious Basterds, Troy, The Bridge) doing most of her dialogue in flawless French, with some short passages of English mixed in. Beyond her impressive career in American films, the multi-lingual Kruger has in recent years made more and more European films speaking in French and her native German.

It starts out really well. It has a fascinating premise. Kruger plays Estelle, an airline pilot who is married to Guillaume, a respected doctor (Mathieu Kassovitz) with whom she shares a just gorgeous French Riviera beach estate. One day while walking through the Nice Airport, she notices Ana (Marta Nieto), a woman with whom she had a tumultuous affair about 20 years earlier.

Estelle was planning to pretend she didn’t notice Ana, but Ana saw her and they started talking. Ana has become somewhat well-known as a photographer, with the very specific and edgy specialty of photographing people as they achieve orgasm. At first, Estelle uses Guillaume as a buffer from the reckless and potentially dangerous Ana, but eventually they fall slip back into their affair as if no time has passed.

Oh, and did I mention that even before they ran into each other, Estelle had a dream about something really bad happening at the modern compound on the sea where Ana was staying?

Estelle feels guilty for cheating on Guillaume, but she can’t help herself. Then one night, she gets a call from what seems to be Ana, but there is no talk, just lots of strange noises in the background. And suddenly, Ana appears to have disappeared. She is not answering any phone calls. She does not appear to be at the home she was staying in. And what is that pool of blood in the house?

Interesting stuff.

Unfortunately, about halfway through the movie stops really making sense. I mean, I guess with a name like Visions this could be expected, but eventually the audience has no idea of what is really happening, what is hallucination, what is from memory, what is precognition and what is simply fantasy. And when you do find out what actually happened – at least I think you do – again you do not know for sure whether it is real or simply a vision.

Eventually time, reality and space fold in on themselves in a climactic scene in which a character appears to be in two separate places in a single longshot. Granted, it is an arresting image, however the audience is trying to figure out how and why this is happening.

Still, even if it does get rather confusing as it goes on, you have to credit Visions for creating a creepy situation and intense vibe. 

Jay S. Jacobs

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