July 7, 1997

Trop tard (1997) *

Flawed, but interesting Romanian film about a serial killer haunting an old coal mine. It's an allegory about the horrible legacy of Communism in Eastern Europe - rusting vestiges of industrial complexes, corruption in high places, human misery, despair, madness ... The film doesn't quite pull it all off; for a better treatment of similar themes, see Tarkovsky's "Stalker".