Little can prepare you for The Tribe in a number of senses, but it is unhesitatingly a film that should be considered essential for anyone with a passion for intelligent, challenging cinema.

The movie is leisurely as well as graphic in its representation of sex and violence and, predicated on long takes, is visceral in a wholly unexpected way.

With The Tribe, the power of communication is restructured and re-examined, with a story that's strange and disturbing enough to haunt you.

Impressively commanding audience commitment to its increasingly disturbing narrative, it's a compelling scenario suggesting the universally understood ordeal of finding out true love is blind.