Emilio Floris
Like at least one of my fellow reviewers, I was laboring under the mistaken impression that I was watching M. Night Shyamalan's latest masterpiece until reaching the halfway mark after about one hour. Not so. This one is actually a nice little feminist movie about a pole dancer moonlighting in a lesbian theater production, which is not necessarily my cup of tea but equal and totally valid. The ladies might want to watch it for the quite attractive and often scantily clad male lead. Enjoy!
esavier
OK, at first i lasted 2 minutes, i thought this is some kind of misunderstanding. But OK, i asked myself, is it OK to write the review after 2 minutes of the movie. So i took a lot of vodka and watched it all. Afterwards i decided to bleach my eyes and if its possible my brain.How anybody can do something disgusting and miserable, and proudly show it to people. I actually find growing mold more interesting than this... How much drugs do average human need to actually enjoy this?
renhir
Inanna (Amy Ferguson) joins an experimental theater group that works on the Mesopotamian myth of Inanna, and more specifically on the liberation of enslaved women. After a few rehearsals, she comes to the conclusion that she does not possess the primal rage and the raw longing for freedom that the other women in the play possess. In a most upsetting scene, these women tell how they have been victims of extreme (sexualized) violence. At the same time, Inanna falls head over heels in love with Derek, a mask maker (Morgan Spector), and marries him. Right from the start, she adapts her life to his, while he refuses to change anything in his own life. He doesn't even stop the affair he had with his assistant (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), claiming that she was there first. Inanna soon realizes that she is losing her identity while getting nothing in return. Profoundly wounded and feeling like drowning, she is now able to express the primal rage and the raw longing for freedom that the play requires from her.
Jan Lisa Huttner
This stunning new film uses familiar images from prior Kampmeier films (e.g., the naked women in the lake in VIRGIN, the snakes in HOUNDDOG, etc) to go in daring new directions that are even deeper, darker & more rewarding.Amy Ferguson is very good as "Inanna" (an actress piecing together a career in New York's Indie Theatre scene), but Morgan Spector is a revelation as "Derek" (a tormented artist who makes brilliant theatrical masks which seem to have been born in Julie Taymor's worst nightmares).SPLIT is not for the faint of heart & I have no doubt it will prove to be just as controversial as VIRGIN and HOUNDDOG. But remember this: no one knew Elizabeth Moss before Kampmeier cast her as the lead in VIRGIN, and Dakota Fanning had only played kid roles before Kampmeier cast her as the lead in HOUNDDOG. She also cast Robin Wright in key supporting roles in both films. So if actresses of this stature have put their trust in Deborah Kampmeier, then so should you!