Amporn Pankratok, Borhan Du Welz, Emmanuelle Béart

A couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami - their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying danger...( read more  read more... )s.

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R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Directed by: Fabrice Du Welz

Release Date: September 24, 2008

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DVD Release Date: April 7, 2009

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  • May 1, 2009
    Fabrice Du Welz's "Vinyan" turns out to be a powerful account about obsessive love and mental decline. The premise might not be something exicting: a couple, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart) and Paul (Rufus Sewell) who are looking for their son, Joshua, whom they lost in tsunami. But wh...( read more)en they start the search and their relationship slowly starts to fall apart, things take an interesting turns.

    While it is somewhat difficult to specify its genre, "Vinyan" has equal amount of drama, thriller and horror and yet, it works on every level, thanks to terrific acting and direction. Having Benoît Debie (Gaspar Noe's cinematographer) on board always bring brilliant results and case of "Vinyan" proves it once again; the look of the picture is just extraordinary.

    "Vinyan" is engaging, atmospheric, imaginative and disturbing; a modern horror done with class.
  • April 15, 2009
    Ridiculous at times, but also enjoyable to watch. Emmanuelle Beart wavers between hidious and gorgeous, depending on the shot. Her character makes you want to punch her in the ovary. However, children with punji sticks cannot be ignored as awesome. Also, where else can you se...( read more)e 50 children groping a grown woman's breast? I love the French.
  • April 11, 2009
    Suffering Surrealism. It's Art-Horror. Not the gory kind, this is one of those "You-might-as-well-already-be-dead" nightmares with spooky feral children. The story's not remarkable but it's photographed extremely well. It's dirty beautiful creepy. Du Welz makes the screen drip at...( read more)mosphere. Great performances build to magnificent climax. One of the best in recent memory. Yep, Great Ending.
  • March 26, 2009
    If you want to spend 96 minutes boring, watching landscapes from Thailand and a mother suffering and going crazy because her song disappeared in a tsunami this is your movie.
    Otherwise, don´t waste you precious time in this like I did. No blood, no horror, no thriller.
  • October 18, 2009
    Vinyan isn't a typical horror film, but there's no denying it's quite horrific.

    This Guy Over Here picks this as one of the Best Horror Films of the 2000s
  • October 18, 2009
    Beeindruckender Film. Es kostet zwar einige Mühe dem berdrückenden Spiel von Emmanuelle Béart zuzusehen, aber der Film hat, dank ihr, eine beklemmende Steigerung bis zum Schluss.
  • August 29, 2009
    interesting atmosphere, tho
  • August 15, 2009
    a skilfully executed drama rendered with an artsy horror touch this film was a pleasant surprise ,even tho most critic reactions to it seem either over-praising or over-condemning to me.. still i must say that starting from the first 10 minutes this film got me pretty much hooked...( read more) with its visuals and sound design, the story is one of those "slowly drifting into complete madness" ones with a theme of lost child horror-tragedy, "dont look now" and "antichrist" come to mind, and some global politics references, third world charity programs, oedipal motives, exsistentialist dread, a bit of perverted spiritualism and harshness of nature etc. starting from the first few minutes the film clearly hints that the world we are about to see is really a rendering of the main characters twisted state of mind more so than in your average horror flick, and its that atmosphere of despair and madness thats the main horror here, dont expect some gory heart twitching frights popping out every 20 minits, that can be a problem for some folks, but also du welz said in some interview that he sees (one of his favourite films) texas chainsaw massacre as a " very fine art film", so this might give you a bit of a hint what to expect here.. a couple that lost their child in a tsunami a few months ago are attending some charity kind of meeting in southeast asia where the mother sees on one of the video of the kids a small trace of a child that looks to her like her son, and shes determined to go to find him, draging her husband along and depending on some local gangsters to take them to that place (jungles of burma) and find their son, so from this position of "keeping the poor at a proper distance" as zizek would say about the charity trend they become directly "involved" with those people and dependdent on them,and the harsh hostile dark enviorment these westerners end up in that we see in the film is largely a product of their own emotional disbalance and also fear of "the other" but it also is a much more "realistic" portrait of the hungry and needing than that pet version that you get on your starbucks "donate a few dolars" poster, these spooky kids roam around like unsatisfied ghosts, which is what the title "vinyan" refers to.. they are also ghosts of their personal tragedy and the main characters "maternal madness".. but not to say too much about the film, the film produces meanings on many levels that are very interconnected.. the plot seems pretty simple and somewhat predictable, but its very much about how its executed that makes this film really worth watching, it wont make you cum all over the place, but chances are good that youll pretty much enjoy while the ride lasts, in a bit of a depressing way that is..
  • August 14, 2009
    Can appreciate the artistic aspect they tried to achieve...
    That's about it... one of the lamest movies we kicked ourselves for renting!
    GO HOME!!!! *ugh*
  • June 25, 2009
    Creepy jungle children!

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