Product: The Dead Girl (2006)
Rating: 4.0
Relentlessly grim, Utterly gripping
I wouldn't have bothered to view this film if Rose Byrne's name weren't on the package. Dark, forlorn stories with bleached-out photography ain't my thing. But from the first vignette (of five) about two stringy-haired, lonely women, I was gripped.In that first part, a young woman's body has been found. The first four parts tell of its effect on various people. The last and weakest vignette tells of how the young woman got dead. The journey in each of the first four follows an unpredicable course. Each maintains a funereal tone. And they are chock-full of incredible actors who can match Rose Byrne in quality if not in loveliness.Too bad the writer didn't manage to maintain that tone or unpredictability thru the last chapter. It's full of clichés screeched at the upper decibels. If it weren't for that, I'd have been forced to give this grim movie 5 stars. Boy! That was close!