Genre: Mystery, Drama
Plot: Ana Kokkinos does not shy away from the discomfitingly sexual. Her previous films, Only the Brave and Head On, combine matter-of-fact sexual brutality with a clear-eyed analysis of human need. Her latest film penetrates even deeper into this tissue of desire and obsession.Based on Rupert Thomson's disturbing novel, The Book of Revelation concerns a charismatic, beautiful dancer named Daniel (Tom Long). He lives in a dreamy world of dance - stunningly recreated in the film's opening sequences - and in a somewhat distant but happy relationship with his girlfriend. His most passionate relationship is with his mentor and choreographer, Isabel (Greta Scacchi). One day, Daniel goes out for cigarettes and does not return, sending the dance company and the women in his life into a chilled terror. When he turns up eleven days later, he is profoundly changed by an experience he cannot articulate except through nightmares and sobbing. Initially, we only get glimpses of the three cloaked and hooded women who abducted him. Bound and often tortured, he is increasingly forced into sexual situations and body humiliations that deepen their control over him and fulfill their personal fantasies. Daniel, now unable to dance or engage emotionally with the people around him, begins a quest to
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