https://vo.rs/tags/transcendence/Latest from the Transcendence desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/martyrs-2008-new-french-extremity-with-a-thesis/<p>Some films you argue about with friends. Pascal Laugier&rsquo;s <em>Martyrs</em> (2008) is one you argue about with yourself, for years, usually at three in the morning. It is the most punishing film to come out of the movement critics christened the New French Extremity, and it is also, awkwardly for anyone who wants to dismiss it as endurance-test cruelty, the most intellectually serious. The brutality is real and unremitting. Underneath it is a genuine argument about suffering, belief and what, if anything, lies on the other side of pain. Whether the argument earns the brutality is the question the film hands you and refuses to answer on your behalf.</p>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:00:00 +0000