It may fool you at the start with its touches of comic surrealism but this is a very dark film. It's undoubtedly an achievement, but a little too sordid for me. It sure does linger in the mind though.

A very dark, but beautiful (in it's own, morbid and surrealistic way) movie. It's also filled with dark humor and epic quotes;

“When he was younger, Fernand had problems in school. In grade 5, he was put into a class of retards with schizoprenics, psychopaths, a set of epileptic twins, a transvestite and an albino. Even there he'd failed his exams three years in a row”

Quite amazing really.