| | Seance (Korei) film review | Movie Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | If the synopsis of "Seance" sounds like that of a standard thriller, well...really it is. I was immediately reminded of the 1964 British drama "Seance On A Wet Afternoon" in superficial plot machinations and subdued tone, and found out later that Kurosawa and his cowriter based their film loosely on Mark McShane's original novel. |
 | | Barely glimpsed in shadows as an ectoplasmic smudge, and even more frightening when she glides through a mid-afternoon diner crowd, missing facial detail and limbs, the diminutive phantom seems to taken apart and put back together for a mission in the corporeal world, but hasn't been assembled quite...right. |
 | | Imagery aside, "Seance" remains most compelling with its interior, domestic drama worthy of comparison to vintage Polanski. |
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