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Pig
At the start it almost seems to be setting itself up as a sort of more artsy version of a Liam Neeson Taken kind of thing, instead the daughter is a pig. But it's the opposite of that, a strange, delicate and beautiful film about love and loss. Cage is brilliant.

Hanging Garden
This was a really strange film but I thought it was also brilliant. Very hard to sum up neatly or categorize, this is a part of its brilliance, it's not a film to try to pick apart or untangle. A Japanese domestic drama that is more tense and unnerving than most outright horror films, it's really very funny too. The swaying camera work is so discomforting, and yet there's some really lovely looking scenes also. Capturing how ungrounded and unhinged our obsessions can make us it puts you in the lead character's head incredibly effectively, where her internal world will suddenly bleed through (and it can be very bloody indeed!) into the scene . It describes the difficulty of living in a family, but also the hope found within one even if it's imperfect. Fantastic stuff.

<blockquote data-quote="Vashdaman" data-source="post: 664385" data-attributes="member: 246">Pig&nbsp; At the start it almost seems to be setting itself up as a sort of more artsy version of a Liam Neeson Taken kind of thing, instead the daughter is a pig. But it's the opposite of that, a strange, delicate and beautiful film about love and loss. Cage is brilliant. Hanging Garden This was a really strange film but I thought it was also brilliant. Very hard to sum up neatly or categorize, this is a part of its brilliance, it's not a film to try to pick apart or untangle. A Japanese domestic drama that is more tense and unnerving than most outright horror films, it's really very funny too. The swaying camera work is so discomforting, and yet there's some really lovely looking scenes also. Capturing how ungrounded and unhinged our obsessions can make us it puts you in the lead character's head incredibly effectively, where her internal world will suddenly bleed through (and it can be very bloody indeed!) into the scene . It describes the difficulty of living in a family, but also the hope found within one even if it's imperfect. Fantastic stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vashdaman, post: 664385, member: 246"] [B]Pig[/B] At the start it almost seems to be setting itself up as a sort of more artsy version of a Liam Neeson Taken kind of thing, instead the daughter is a pig. But it's the opposite of that, a strange, delicate and beautiful film about love and loss. Cage is brilliant. [B]Hanging Garden [/B] This was a really strange film but I thought it was also brilliant. Very hard to sum up neatly or categorize, this is a part of its brilliance, it's not a film to try to pick apart or untangle. A Japanese domestic drama that is more tense and unnerving than most outright horror films, it's really very funny too. The swaying camera work is so discomforting, and yet there's some really lovely looking scenes also. Capturing how ungrounded and unhinged our obsessions can make us it puts you in the lead character's head incredibly effectively, where her internal world will suddenly bleed through (and it can be very bloody indeed!) into the scene . It describes the difficulty of living in a family, but also the hope found within one even if it's imperfect. Fantastic stuff. [/QUOTE]