Ritz Cinemas
Martyrs (2008)
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They haven’t finished being alive.
Lucie, a frail, frightened, adolescent girl flees an abandoned slaughterhouse. Her opaque skin suggests she has been missing for many months. She is found filthy, starved, and unresponsive. Something horrific has happened to her. But what? Flash-forward 15 years later when the quiet tranquillity of a home nestled in a sparsely populated French forest is interrupted by a knock at the door – it’s Lucie, embarking on a gory quest for revenge.
The defining horror film of the New French Extremity movement, Martyrs is both an uncompromisingly confronting work and a masterfully provocative piece of transgressive cinema.
Rating
R18+
Language
French (English Subtitles)
Cast
Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Director
Pascal Laugier
