SCHERZO DIABOLICO

How to get out of a downward spiral when you clock countless hours of overtime, your wife loves you less and less, your son no longer respects you and your boss has just denied you a well earned promotion? That is the question our protagonist Aram has to face. To calm his nerves, he researches all soft drinks without sugar, calculates the exact start time of random point A to point B and … practices his stranglehold grip on his senile father and colleague/prostitute which whom he has a “professional” relation. These three hobbies seem to have nothing to do with each other, but make no mistake. Behind this extravagant lifestyle, there is a plan to get everything he wants: the promotion, the respect of his son and the love of his wife. But like all crazy plans, they never go the way you want them to.

BIFFF regular Adrian Garcia Bogliano knows how to make an entrance. After I’ll Never Die Alone, Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases, he’s back again, but this time he leaves his distinctive fantasy style at home. Instead we get that kind of thriller where only the Koreans seem to excel in: a gripping, nerve wrecking ride stuffed with pitch black humor. Thanks to Kubrick, we already knew that Beethoven could cause “ultraviolence”. Now you can also add Alkan’s Third Study In Minor to the list. That piano sound will haunt your dreams (or nightmares) for nights to come.