Bound

A warning in advance: the brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, former building workers from Chicago, are not your sensitive type. Their directing début Bound is a politically incorrect film that should not be screened at a culturally-minded festival. Bound is not particularly deep and lacks detailed characters. But the pleasure in film-making is undeniable and the story itself wrong foots even the most experienced spectator. The film, a Mafia thriller with a lesbian motif, is in some respects a classical film-noir, but also refers to the work of the Coen Brothers (Blood Simple). It is however too simple to write off Larry and Andy as no more than slavish imitators. They go further than most of their colleagues. Bound is filled with black humour, passionate love making and a few dizzying camera movements. And the fragment with the garden shears will long be a topic of conversation.Ab Zagt