Simon (McAvoy), an art dealer, is embroiled in a plot by Franck (Vincent Cassel) to steal a famous Goya painting. During the crime though, a blow to the head gives Simon serious amnesia, and he is taken to a therapist (Rosario Dawson) who’ll use hypnosis to get him to remember a very important detail…. With…
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When young Matthew Lewis wrote the gothic novel, The Monk, in 1796, it caused quite a stir. Set in a Spanish monastery, it told the tale of virtuous Friar Ambrosio who is seduced by evil, by degrees slipping into lust, fornication, murder, incest. The French-Spanish co-pro of the book, staring Vincent Cassel, is creepy, slow…
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