(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <p>Vera (Geraldine Chaplin), a fading actress) travels to the Dominican Republic to direct a movie based on a script by the late (real life) director Jean-Louis Jorge, which is supposed to be a lavish musical production, together with her (and Jean-Louis') producer friend Victor and her choreographer Henry (Udo Kier). But the production seems to be running into troubles left and right from pretty much the get-go, not also due to tensions on set as Vera's demanding and Henry's a bit of a diva, it's also that sometimes Vera seems to lose touch with reality, which certainly doesn't help her focus, and the weather isn't playing nice with the production either, sending thunderstorms at the least opportune moments, not caring about the production's tight schedule. And then, during the grand finale, tragedy really strikes ...<p> <p><b>Holy Beasts</b> is in essence a loveletter to Dominican director Jean-Louis Jorge, who was murdered in 2000 and has been known for his lavish, almost old-school Hollywood-like productions, a director not only the filmmakers of this film knew personally, it also features many of his actors/friends/contemporaries - and on the plus side, the love for the man shines through, and the looks and lavishness of this film would have certainly made him proud - it's just that taken by its own merits, <b>Holy Beasts</b> doesn't tell much of a story, its own narrative is ever so often interrupted by scenes of beauty but no meaning for the plot, while the drama never really mounts up, seems to be there only in fragments. So basically, the film is beautiful perhaps ... but also a bit boring. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2019"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>