Margot is a young intern who has just joined a high pressure emergancy room staff. During her rounds she begins to see people with weird symptoms, and soon those symptoms begin appearing in her.
This is a French body horror tale with a dark streak of humor. It's a film that starts off with an uncomfortable throwaway that then shifts to the main narrative thread, which kind of gets lost. Partly the film lose some suspense because of its social commentary about society and the medical profession. Doctors are being pushed to the limit by being forced to do more faster, but in some ways that feels like another movie. The main thread here is disease changing us and our heroine but it doesn't quite feel like the script really understands its own illness I felt kind of lost as if bits of it were being made up as we go.
To be completely fair I never completely connected with the film after a certain point. A large part of it is the fact that once we are in the hospital we leave the real world behind. Yes we see it on TV screens and video clips but the hospital itself is alien. The color scheme of the sets feels fake. This isn't supposed to be ain institute ala Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS or any other place where weird doctors roam. This is a hospital so the black and red color scheme and dim lighting make this not like any hospital I know of. The film is also trying to stack everyone and everything against Margot and it's too much from the get go.
At the same time director Marion Corroller has a sure hand for the violence and the bloody sequences are shocking in all the right way. She has a stunning eye for horrorific bits. I like her direction and I'd love to see what she does next, especially if she either pushes her next film all the way into fairy tale territory or keeps it real. There are some good things here and I want to see more of her work.
As for SPIECES (they should have stayed with the orignal French title SANGUINE which is a better choice) the film, it's an interesting misfire.
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