The Temptation of St. Tony is a powerful and outlandish descent into the existential nightmare of a post-modern Dante’s Inferno. A tour-de-force of sound and image, with a masterful emotive minimal score from Ulo Krigul, this is a film equivalent of tasting black pudding sinking into a bowl of blood-red borscht; exotic and carnal, pungent and acquired.
The Temptation of St. Tony is a most original piece of cinema; indulgent and provocative like the work of Jodorowsky, but muses and toys with bittersweet fragments like Bergman. Director Õunpuu is a riddle unto himself, providing the viewer with severed hands in a swampy creek and the good man forced to bury his murdered dog in a shallow snow grave. The consumption of his fragile lover’s flesh is the salty icing on the open wound of his psyche. Let the darkest of humanity lie with sleeping dogs.
http://cultprojections.com/708/movies/t ... f-st-tony/
I really, really enjoyed this one folks. One can only hope it appears in some form somewhere so I can share this experience with you. Sadly I can't really see how many distributors would view an eccentric, oblique, Lynchian, black and white Estonian film as a profitable commodity.
http://www.richonfilm.com/sff_2010_day_ ... orea_plods
