The Lost Door (2008)

Memorable, crazy movie

Great Film overall

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

There is little that is not a struggle or confrontation in life. This movie shows the showdown between two people, at opposite odds, who are not able to understand one another. But who may be the same. Production values are high, while production costs are well below almost virtually all studio budgets. And produced and directed by a singular artist. While there are structural problems in the script, an attempt was made to make up for them, that is obvious. Casting is uneven, but the actions and the situations of the characters are engaging and make the viewer want to see and listen to more. Stuart's photography and lighting, well-known via his books, highlight erotic and dramatic moments that bring to life real people in a contemporary art scheme of life: nothing matters, but that nothing is a matter of life or death.

I think summarising the whole film I could to the least say that it is nicely filmedalthough the contents of it are not to my usual likes..maybe as a movie is not suited but to a particular kind of audience.However the main character Kristina has a very powerful presence and for that alone the film deserves to be seen and merits to be appreciatedI would recommend to watch this more than only ones as you may find that it has a certain provocative intentions that go behind expectations Mikaela Fisher is an astonish actressof a breath taking beauty and has got a real flair !!

I had to view The Lost Door in two times, because the first viewing freaked me out somewhat. After this mental 360, I was able to discern the balance between the love, sex and hatred that a lot of people have abandoned behind their own internal doors, lost deep inside themselves. There is a basic equilibrium essential to every human being and its absence leads to a basic neurosis."Who loves a relationship for its stability can unite with a table", Marc more or less says in the film. I would add: "who loves only the warmness and humidity of a sex can unite with a cooked vegetable!" Extremes lead to hatred: the body expresses revolt . The rape, the murder…A cinematographic production, with imagery and editing that's worthy of the photographer's eye, which incites to consult our own spiritual balance.

I have seen the movie a couple of times...and I could...probably will... look at it more often. It's a piece of contemporary Art, in mine eyes, which triggers my perception in many ways. Like; what's the movie trying to say? Every time that I look at it I see different things. Things such as; Light instead of heavy, a flash trough the head, earth, sex?, live/death, good/bad, pleasure and most of all nothingness; pop up in my head. The whole thing is beautifully done in Mr. Stuart's typical style. I see interesting looking people, a lot of emotion triggering my own and its pleasant and quite unique (to me). The pale, cold and natural look make the movie pretty and erotically stimulating in a chic hysterical kind of way. It leaves me thinking; it doesn't really matter. And; it tastes like more. I cant completely understand / put my finger on it, it being the movie, and I think that that the Artist's intent is. Cause that's what keeps on playing in my mind strongest after having watched it. Very Nicely done!