Red Nights (2009)

Carrie is obsessed with the punishments meted out by the first Chinese emperor’s Jade Executioner. He tortured his victims by using formidable claws and a poison that provoked ecstatic and mortal pleasure. With the complicity of her lover, she explores extraordinary sadistic perversions and dreams of bringing the Jade Executioner’s legend back to life by getting her hands on the evil poison. Catherine, a Frenchwoman, then appears on the scene. She is wanted by Interpol and unbeknownst to her, has the precious elixir in her possession, hidden in an antique that she is determined to dispose of. Fate brings them together through the intervention of Sandrine, an art trafficker, while the hot object also arouses the lust of a Taiwanese gangster, Mr. Ko.

I just watched it in Fantasporto Film Festival 2011. Wow! The relations between the women are stunningly wicked and the images of the film are beautifully disturbing. Killing people softly but till death do they part! It is such a revolutionary film, never seen anything like it before! If you watch it with a conservative mind and try to put it in any existing frame of genres in cinema, you will be lost. Because this movie is obvious an exploration of new sensations in cinema. A challenge in moral and an escape in reality, this movie is a crossover of love and death, modern and ancient, beauty and fear. Try to watch it with an open mind and you will be surprised how it drills in your heart. Love it!!!

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