Written and Directed by Aurélia Mengin

ALTER suffers from depression and schizophrenia. She consults a healer who practices mystical hypnosis and discovers that her mother is hiding a secret from her. The only breath of fresh air: a strange incandescent encounter… (IMDB)

“What the hell have I just watched?” was what flew through my mind at the end of the screening of Scarlet Blue at the Screams by the Sea festival in Bournemouth last month. Radi Nikolov, festival director introduced the movie as one that will stick with you long after the credits roll but, as I watched it, I wasn’t sure that was going to be for the right reasons. Maybe it was the 09:30 start that meant Scarlet Blue was the punch in the face that is the neon-tinged, dutch-angled, symbolism-laden movie that I emerged blinking into the light from just after 11am on a sunny morning in Bournemouth?

Maybe it’s just me?

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