From Japan comes a tale of revenge filmed as confessions by various characters surrounding a school teacher who has lost her young child, the school pupils who may be involved and fact that the school milk has been infected with HIV.
Gloriously shot and beautifully crafted this is an indulgent movie both for the viewer and the film maker. Visually sparkling through slow motion rain showers, backward explosions and slapstick humour all scored with a constant medley of emotionally downbeat tunes added to startlingly observed performances from young actors underpin a disturbing story on the change of Japanese moral values and youth.
CONFESSIONS could be improved by a sterner hand on the editing shears lending a leaner view on this Eastern revenge tale before it greets a wider western audience and is much subtler than the expected violence of such a film from Oriental climes but shares a place with MOTHER and BEDEVILLED proving the dark side of Asian cinema is not all long hair ghosts and splatter.
Full on hard on.
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