LITAN

Co-written, produced, edited, directed by and starring Jean-Pierre Mocky, LITAN loosely follows Nora, who is deeply concerned about her husband, Jock (actual spelling), after she has a nightmare he’s been killed during a trip to the rural village of Litan. She goes out to find him but encounters one bizarre event after another as the narrative quickly devolves into a Boschian nightmare, drifting between a mad scientist and a bumbling police chief, among others, spinning ever further into a foggy dreamworld.

Mocky’s LITAN is a classic cult Euro-horror and a Kafkaesque fever dream of surrealist imagery, arrestingly shot by Edmond Richard (cinematographer of multiple late-period works from both Orson Welles and Luis Bunuel). There's barely a moment of clarity or firm footing, just fog and alleyways and masks and blood everywhere. Probably best not to ask anyone for help.