2001 · thriller · mystery · supernatural
Belphégor
Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé1h 37m2001
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
Our read: Belphégor (2001) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · mystery · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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