Today on VOD: Fabrice du Welz Sings Alleluia
John Squires
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An official selection of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and winner of four awards at Austin’s Fantastic Fest 2014, Fabrice du Welz’s Alleluia (review) comes our way with some serious credibility already attached to it. Today it arrives in limited theaters and on VOD outlets via Doppelganger Releasing.
The romantic thriller, which our own Matt Boiselle hailed as a “visceral look at something that drastically spirals out of control,” opens in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles and is available nationwide via cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon Instant, and other digital platforms.
In the film Michel (Laurent Lucas) is a born womanizer and professional hustler with a penchant for wooing lonely, vulnerable widows and divorcees. When he meets introverted single mom Gloria (Lola Dueñas) online and treats her to an electrifying first date, she’s left completely smitten. Michel tries to swindle what he can out of the one-night stand, but his latest victim has other plans.
Basking in the rush of new love, she frantically pursues him, witnessing the true depths of his depravity and offering herself as an accomplice in his seductive crimes. Having truly met their match in each other, the unhinged lovers embark on a deadly odyssey amplified by wild sex, unbridled jealousy, and passionate forays into the dark arts.
This smart and gory shocker breathes new life into the lovesick horror genre to serve up a chilling tale of white-hot desperation and terrifying devotion.
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