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Through the Forest

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A visit to a psychic convinces a grief-stricken woman (Jehnny Beth) that her dead lover has returned to her.

Critics Reviews

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Nick Schager Slant Magazine 09/29/2005
3.5/4
A quixotic film of tone-poem rhythms about the unquenchable desire for lost love. Go to Full Review J. Hoberman Village Voice 09/27/2005
Civeyrac's moody sixth feature combines genre movie thematics (and B movie frugality) with a bravura narrative structuralism. Go to Full Review Dan Sallitt Senses of Cinema 10/17/2018
Varying its level of artifice according to a plan that is revealed only gradually, Forêt benefits from a second viewing, so that the viewer can try on different interpretations of Arielle's strange journey into the afterlife. Go to Full Review Aaron Hillis Premiere Magazine 10/08/2005
[The film's] lingering philosophical eeriness may seem like Tarkovsky-lite to some, but it's undeniably an hour well-spent under the tutelage of an under-represented auteur. Go to Full Review Joshua Tanzer Offoffoff 10/05/2005
2/4
Quick, what's the first thing you do as a director trying to make yourself seem cool, besides editing the movie backwards? Right! You shoot your scenes in one continuous shot. Go to Full Review Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice 09/28/2005
5/5
A hypnotic and intense masterwork on grief, the afterlife, and the yearning of the soul that can turn darkness into light. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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09/11/2009 As usual, the French have a special knack for conveying the tender and the agonising nature of visceral love. there isn't much plot, but the sweeping and spiralling cinematography, the sharp dialogue and vivid characterisations all conspire to render an undulating emotional ambience that leaves you quivering with delight and recoiling in inconsolable pathos. A masterpiece. For those of us who have travelled the tortuous and tempestuous odyssey that is amorous yearning and its evil twin, unbearable grief, this is a film for us. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Director

Jehnny Beth

Armelle

Aurélien Wiik

Renaud

Morgane Hainaux

Roxane

Mireille Roussel

Medium

Alice Dubuisson

Bérénice

Movie Info

Synopsis A visit to a psychic convinces a grief-stricken woman (Jehnny Beth) that her dead lover has returned to her.
Director
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Genre
Drama, Fantasy
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 22, 2016
Runtime
1h 0m