Film: Le secret de la chambre noire

The French managed to convince the venerable director Kiyoshi Kurosawa to make a film outside Japan.

In Le secret de la chambre noire, he has unsurprisingly opted for a story in which the dead come back to haunt the living. The beginning is promising: after the death of his wife, a photographer forces his daughter to pose for hours on end. Unfortunately, the elegance with which he evokes the creepy, unnerving atmosphere gets lost due to the unfocused script with digressions, subplots, and secondary characters that suck the life out of the film.

> Le Secret de la chambre noire. FR, JP, 2016, dir.: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, act.: Tahar Rahim, Olivier Gourmet, Constance Rousseau, 131 min.
> Galeries, UGC Gulden Vlies/Toison d'Or