Storyline

Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he thinks is wrong in contemporary society. His bitterness spills over at a dinner party attended by his old college friends, an occasion which sends him running to a nearby brothel, where he meets Liza (Lee), a young prostitute.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords

independent film, bureaucrat, civil servant, loneliness, melancholy, misanthrope, rage, self destructiveness, foreign language adaptation, brothel madam, tears, liar, bare breasts, neighbor, female nudity, video camera, shame, based on novel, alone, anger

Short Review

I first saw this movie by chance in an art house cinema in Gracia, Barcelona. It's a brilliantly dark B movie rendition of Dostoevsky's classic- and modern day adaptations of old stories don't usually do it for me. If you enjoy watching the (often hilarious) blunders and frustrations of a tormented soul's progress to stubborn self-destruction you will enjoy this. Thought-provoking.

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Streaming Service

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