'Infinity Pool' (2023): Attraction of a Grotesque and Static Time

Infinity Pool is a movie written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg starring Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth and Cleopatra Coleman.

You may hate it or love it, but this movie was created from an extreme and risky gamble.

Knowing where this director comes from and feeds on a tradition of risks… everything is under control.

This is a movie that knows how to penétrate into the most fascinating morbidity and fall into the excesses of grotesqueness.

Storyline

Some tourists are on vacation in an island paradise called Tolga (fictitious). They meet another couple, and accidentally run over a native of the island, which sends them into an inner nightmare.

Movie Review

I already told you: You will love it or hate it. And you will even have reasons to do both at the same time, this is what is great about this movie. At times it is fascinating, grotesque and brutal and others it goes back to an Eighties style spirit (Brandon Cronenberg does not have that surname by chance precisely) which separates us from it.

The plot: absolutely disquieting, morbid. We love it. Some of the visuals are fascinating to us and above all, we are passionate about the way this director takes a gamble on the darkest side of existence… or non existence with the “doppelgänger” subject, so fascinating in literature.

Whether we recommend it or not is something else again: you need to be prepared for it and be willing to explore the most Kafkian side of the human psyche, and also have guts for finding vacuity.

If you are a social realism and lost causes fan… forget it, you will find it banal and superficial and will consider your time would be best dedicated to other more fruitful causes.

If, on the other hand, you believe this life is a small fragment of a black hole that has already devoured us in infinite universes… you are one of my kind, and we will likely meet in a self-help group with Brandon Cronenberg.

A psychedelic movie, passé perhaps, futuristic and at the same time novel, timeless… in a momento in which somehow time has stopped and the flow of consciousness has entered a static and tenuous future that is mortiferous.

It is really entertaining.

Our Opinion

Fascinating, hypnotic, intelligently unbalanced, brutal and marvelously insulting.

Director

Brandon Cronenberg is a Canadian director and screenwriter. Born January 10th, 1980 in Toronto to parents David Cronenberg and Carolyn Zeifman. His debut feature film was ‘Antiviral’ (2012), and has since directed a number of films, among them the short but long titled ‘Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You’ (2019), and the feature film ‘Possessor’ (2020).