Saint-Narcisse

The nature seems be the main virtue of this film. Far to be a bad one, it seems too ambitious, reuniting, mixing different themes in eccentric manner, offering a ball of cliches and eccentric fantasies, suggesting improvisation and exploring, in not the most smart manner, old cliches, from Narcisse to Saint Sebastian significance in gay sub culture.

Sure, beautiful details, nice references to classic stories, not uninspired - forced in few scenes - links between erotic and horror. And, no doubts, interesting work of Tania Kontoyanni, not bad try to define his characters - and the seductive body - of Felix Antoine Duval.

So, I admitt, it is not fair or easy to be very critic about this film for me. Sure, not perfect, not brilliant acting but, as admirer of Gothic culture - the thoughts about The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis are the first- , Saint Narcisse is more than decent.

I'm not sure what to make of this. At times it seems like it wants to be a serious minded film. Other times it seems close to soft porn. The exterior shots are well photographed, but the acting is dismal, though the lead, Félix-Antoine Duval, has charisma and is certainly sexy to make up for his acting deficiency. He sounds dubbed, but he's not. In any event, this is a poorly written film, to put it mildly, but somehow hard to turn off as you cannot help but wonder what will happen next. I fear that makes it sound more interesting than it is. The last scene is laughable.

A film that has a lot of imagination in it's premise. The cinematography is well done. There is a lot of beautiful nature within the film, especially the lake. I enjoyed how the plot of the film was centered around nature and a small town. Andreas Apergis's performance stood out to me. There was depth to each of the characters in Saint-Narcisse as well as to the plot. Each character had traits that could be considered less/more desirable within my estimation, perhaps this was done intentionally. Additionally, I enjoyed the music and how the music complemented each scene (sometimes dreamlike, but the plot draws you back to the course of the film). The ending had me asking one question though. I am glad that Saint-Narcisse was made and that I got to see it.

I'm surprised Felix still has a career after this. Absolutely terrible directing, lighting, awful story. What could've been a modern retelling of the Greek myth turned into a Pasolini style quasi art film. The intention is there, but the only thing redeeming about the movie is shirtless Felix. The final straw is the ending. The themes of narcissism and self love deserve more experienced treatment, then just turning them into a sidenote on straight lives.

I look about 250 so called Indie movies a year. I am 60 years old . I finally found the most bad movie ever seen. I even have no power to tell why everone should avoid this movie. Is it for the total lack of inspiration in the story telling, the pace of the movie that even a child at primary school can improve, the irritating repeat of a flash forward in the first 20 minutes, the extreme boring camera angles , the fact that you shall cringe your fingers and toes about the script and meaningless dialogues? I don't know. I pay 10 times the price back for what I for paid to see this 'movie' To anyone who can get my money back from where I bought it.