Synopsis
Claude is 25 years old. Seemingly a fragile girl, she gets arrested charged with killing 27 people in abominable ways and dumping the bodies in an underground grave. The court orders that she undergo a comprehensive psychological analysis for three months of reprieve before the final sentence. Karl and Brenack, psychologists, find out she is suffering from a multi-personality disorder and begin to explore the dangerous labyrinth inside her psyche as complex and winding as the Paris subway. This film is a journey inside a human being’s labyrinthine psyche. Just as Minotaur, the monster who swallowed every human being ever entered the labyrinth, Claude decides the fate of her victims with dices, the means of chance. But wait, everybody knows Theseus killed off Minotaur to become a hero. Has anybody wondered why Minotaur became a monster in the first place? That’s where The Labyrinth starts off. Why was the blood of Claude irrevocably tainted? Why did she turned into a lonely monster? Sylvie Testud, the actress the French are proud of, and Lambert Wilson, Merovingian of the Matrix Reloaded, turns out stunning performances. The surprising ending, reminiscing of The Sixth Sense, is not shocking but testifies to an aspect of human nature. Sylvie Testud, who already paid a visit to PIFAN as the heroine of Fear and Trembling in 2003, shows off an incredible acting feat, becoming a hurt boy one minute and a stout male serial killer the next. (YI Sul)