This has been a very welcome surprise. I hadn't heard a word about this film and I just got to it after checking the list of films starred by Lauren German that sweety playing the main role in Hostel 2. So far this is the best film I've watched this year (excluding Incendies, but that piece of art plays on a different league
Dark, apocalyptic film where we're provided with almost zero background information. All we know is that some kind of Nuclear Attack has taken place drawing a group of men and women to find shelter in the sort of nuclear bunker built by their paranoid landlord. The group ends up trapped there, and all sort of conflicts arise. The first and obvious issue is the access and rationing of food and water, then we have issues with sex and power (well, aren't they the same? :-) The films grows harsher as it moves on, doing an excellent depiction of how human beings can degrade, both physically (radiation, lack of proper feeding...) and very especially at the moral level (some brainless tough guys turn into soulless degenerate beasts, one loving mother becomes their bitch seeking their protection...). The story gets more intense and claustrophobic by the minute and you end up with a French extreme cinema taste in your mouth. Well, after these 120 minutes of darkness and despair concluded I read that the director did previously direct one of the best exponents of that new wave of brutality, Frontiers.
So, just go and watch it, sure you can't find many better things to spend your time with
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