Italian giallo horror flicks, American slasher flicks, Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession, Fellini’s Satyricon and a film-within-a-film described as “Antonioni meets Escape from N.Y.” are some, but clearly not all, of the works referenced in French director Bertrand Mandico’s delirious homage to cinema and the ’80s, Roma Elastica.
Clearly destined for hardcore movie buffs and/or lovers of extreme kitsch, this behind-the-scenes psychodrama stars Marion Cotillard as a deathly ill scream queen who arrives in Rome in 1982 to shoot a sci-fi movie with artsy pretentions, only to learn that stranger things are happening off-camera and perhaps in her own mind.
Roma Elastica
The Bottom Line
Nostalgic kitsch for movie cultists.
