![]() If you enjoy the best of written contemporary fantasy and are dissatisfied by how rarely screened fantasy matches it, usually as a result of Hollywood defaults, then you'll whoop with joy on discovering Nomads. Prime acting honours, though, must go to Anna Maria Monticelli her portrayal of a French academic's French wife in an unknown city is pitch-perfect. Brosnan and Down are not the actors you'd expect to find playing this sort of material, but Down turns in a perfectly creditable performance - as does Brosnan whenever (which is, fortunately, most of the time) he doesn't have to speak: his French accent is lamentable. yet by the movie's end all makes perfectly coherent sense according to the movie's own internal logic. ![]() One of those rare fantasy movies that has the courage to be conceptually uncompromising with its audience, this plays with several layers of reality so that often one is uncertain if the particular scene currently on-screen can be taken at face value or not. "Nomads" is, without a doubt, a thinking man's horror film. #NOMADS 1986 IDMG MOVIE#I liked this movie a lot, even if it was as complicated as it is. Some parts are extremely creepy, like the sequence with the nuns. Then, the doctor finds that the mysterious, mystical demons known as "nomads" want her next. ![]() It's not very long at all before he not only realizes that these people are no human beings, but also becomes the hunted as they begin to terrorize him. He begins to track them and study their behavior and how they live. For some reason, some streetpunks are very interested in his house and he finds that they have built a shrine to a murder in his garage. She begins to slide into hallucinatory states where she sees how and why Brosnan was killed, with the dead anthropologist every step of the way in his flashbacks. But, before he goes, he somehow manages to pass his memories on to a doctor (Lesley-Anne Downe). He's brought into an emergency room after being attacked by unknown assailants, where he dies. In it, Pierce Brosnan turns in an excellent performance as a French anthropologist in L.A. ![]() It's very complicated and surreal, but, if you can dig it, it is a good one. ![]()
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