Vinyan

A very slow but unstoppable descent into hell. I can't remember the last time I've felt such a sense of isolation, uncertainty and being lost when watching a film. The experience is pretty draining though, and near the end you don't have any more damns left to give. It's also frustrating to see the irrational behavior of Emmanuelle Béart's character, once the sympathy for what she must be going through has gone. If you like scary-looking children, you're gonna love this.

Weird tale of a couple searching for their lost child in middle-of-nowhere Burma that quickly devolves into a wanna-be study of how parents react to losing their children. Unfortunately this idea never really congeals into something worthwhile, leaving a lot of wooden acting from Rufus Sewell interspersed with some truly inspired, Apocalypse Now-ish cinematography.

"Descent into madness" movie which probably owes some inspiration to Apocalypse Now / Heart of Darkness. A desperate European couple search for their lost child in the dangerous jungles of southeast Asia. Some very effective scenes, but others which are just confusing, silly or boring. Interesting idea but no legs or consistency.

I LOVE the ending - it was trashy & fun. But the rest of the film is boring and annoying. Very big dissapointment considering previous du Welz's work.

Complete crap, preposterous, terribly slow from start to finish, not even slightly scary, not even slightly horrific. This is the worst movie I've seen in a while. I also have no idea how the bit at the end got past approval boards.

A pretty fresh premise for a horror film, and it thankfully doesn't delve as deeply into the xenophobia that most jungle-set horror films wallow in. Vinyan is a really slow burn, to the point that it would benefit greatly from tightening a couple of sequences, but it always shines when du Welz takes a moment to get a little surreal and experimental. I love the way du Welz moves the camera, and he finds tons of striking, memorable images on his way to an ending that I loved on multiple levels.

What a shitty movie with not a slightly piece of Horror. I saw that one because another site recommended me as a similar to "Absentia" (Flanagan), at all. The other one was "Lovely Molly" (2011) that one was actually similar in mood.

Mixed feelings. I can appreciate the potential of cultural strangeness to create a scare factor, but that tactic always carries a hint of xenophobia. I met the nicest people in my Thailand travels, while every single native in this movie is creepy or worse. There's a lot to like about Vinyan's premise and Welz generates a wonderfully dreary atmosphere along the way, which ultimately leads me to recommend this. The final act, however, didn't wow me. It feels like I'd seen the ending before.

This is an extremely bleak film about a couple trying to find their lost, presumably dead child in Thailand. It's unrelenting and excellent, but I'm going to put this up there with Irreversible or Martyrs as something you need to be in a certain mindset to watch.

Disturbing horror film, not for everyone I think, but I quite like this way of making films

this movie has a snail pace...the characters were so dull and really complicated in thier life and issues that it just seemed to drag on...but oh man does this movie have a cruel and suprize ending..and it needed it..cause without it this movie would have been a below zero

Spectacular imagery. Poetic.

like being dropped into a tropical nightmare.....

I didn't care for the ending, but overall this is an effective psychological drama about the strain losing a child has on a couple.