It took me four days to watch "Beyond the Black Rainbow". And not because it's split in four parts or has four hours. It's just an excellent sleeping pill replacement, despite the apparent promises of a tensed subject with nightmare potential. Well ... it actually might have nightmare potential (for who's brain is rested enough to make a difference), but tension .. zero. I'm not going to give details on the "action". The movie develops very very slowly like a "poor man's David Lynch" film. I decided to write this short entry for just one reason. Actually, two ... cinematography & sound. The visuals and the audio are excellent. Probably the frame composition was the main reason that kept me (sort of) awake. And the score complements perfectly the time setting, which is somewhere in the '70s (= we have again a lot of synth use a la John Carpenter as in "It Follows"). Unfortunately, after days with waking at 8:00 and failed attempts to go to bed at 2:00 I wasn't able to observe more than the technical side. If there is more ... Which felt missing. So ...
Rating: 2 out of 5
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