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Some believe that filmmaking is an art of turning the unsaid into visual images. Danse Macabre is a fine piece of work materializing such belief. As the title suggests, the director expresses human"s final journey to death as a dance. A woman hangs herself for a reason not disclosed. As the life lives her body, the corpse starts to dance to the tempo and rhythm of the music. The soiled body is washed with clean water, major life events fly by over her photographic image, and her funeral ceremony takes place. Pedro PIRES, who worked on visual effects for a number of films including The Red Violin, shares his fantastic visual genius throughout the film, offering structural esthetics like that of abstract paintings which transforms the dark, tragic notion of death into a poetic, dignified image. (JANG Byung Won)