The Ape

It's a devastating portrait of a man on the edge of madness, and not easy to forget.

This is a difficult, painful film, and hardly for everyone. It left me in a gibbering foetal ball in a corner of the cinema foyer. But in Jesper Ganslandt, Sweden has a new star director.

Jesper Ganslandt's film strikes me as an exercise in morbid intensity for its own sake, but it's certainly well done.

Devoid of positive attributes, The Ape is a frustrating and thoroughly tedious moviegoing experience that primarily comes off as a cinematic endurance test that’s been designed to weed out all but the most avant-garde of viewers.