Scarlet Blue – FrightFest 2024 Movie Review
Director: Aurélia Mengin
Writer: Aurélia Mengin (Screenplay)
Cast
- Amélie Daure (Frontière(s))
- Patricia Barzyk (The Unsewing Machine)
- Stefano Cassetti (Jeune & Jolie)
- Aurélia Mengin (Fornacis)
- Anne-Sophie Charron
Plot: ALTER suffers from depression and schizophrenia. She consults a healer who practices mystical hypnosis and discovers that her mother is hiding a secret from her. The only breath of fresh air: a strange incandescent encounter.
Runtime: 1 Hour 46 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Scarlet Blue starts as Alter (Daure & Charron) receives her mystical hypnosis therapy. It helps manage her depression and schizophrenia and keeps her life in order. Meanwhile, her doctor Léondro Lecreulx (Cassetti) tries to help her understand her past traumas. Alter makes a chance encounter with Chris (Mengin), who starts to unlock a passionate side to her life.
It continues to show the strange path to recovery, as Alter gets caught up in a journey to discover herself. However, the journey takes down roads she isn’t prepared for and pushes her to her limits.
Verdict on Scarlet Blue
Scarlet Blue is a horror mystery following a woman who has turned to alternative therapy to help with her depression and schizophrenia. It takes her on a journey of self-discovery, where she learns more about herself and her sexuality. However, it also takes her to darker places, she isn’t ready to explore.
This movie explores the extreme lengths people search for therapy to cure mental health illnesses. It shows the mind can create a vibrate creation that offers many options to explore the world. This feels like a journey of unsettling nature, which takes off on an unusual journey. It relies heavily on the vibrant colours which take over most of the scenes, along with a mix of camera angles designed to jar us. There is a style used to bring this movie to life, that makes it stand out from others with the same concepts. The performances are fantastic with Amélie Daure & Anne-Sophie Charron shining in the leading roles.
Final Thoughts – Scarlet Blue is vibrant, unsettling and mysterious.
