Seriously off-kilter, but tasty

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2011)

The story to this film is easy enough: a young girl with more baggage than she is supposed to have at her age is committed to a mental asylum. Instead of being helped to deal with her baggage she's being tormented even further - which makes her search for other ways of escape.
The implementation of this story is a short introduction which gives more than enough insight into the backing of the characters and the location - and then an overly large dose of eye candy that alternates between reality and fantasy. This alternation works well - it gives a nicely balanced rhythm of high and low pace scenes and all of them are worked out artfully right.
The film does feel a tiny bit fractured though and the ending isn't entirely pleasing or even fitting. This isn't due to the acting - which is good enough in general, but is purely due to the chosen story line. It doesn't make the film bad - it's eye candy and nothing but eye candy after all, but it could have been better.
So, all in all, maximum visuals, more than OK sound track, highly entertaining and sometimes even art-house but forgotten the moment the cinema is left behind.
7 out of 10 unreal realities.