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Peter Strickland

O.V. English

After Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy, Peter Strickland, the new darling of English cinema, is back with an amazing exercise in surreal filmmaking. Here, he has made a particularly formal genre film, a fantastic, dreamlike, nightmarish tale about a murderous red dress from a scary clothing store (imagine the Galeries Lafayette version Transylvanian Carpathians). It’s a surprisingly deep reflection on the fascination our society has with beauty. A vampire movie...