12 Startling Moments In Cinema

2. THAT Ending Part 2 - A ma soeur! (2001)

a mour de sella Two sisters - Anaïs and Elena - are on holiday. Elena is beautiful and Anaïs is frumpy. They are both obsessed with losing their virginity and the comely Elena starts a relationship with a handsome law student named Fernando. Anaïs cries her eyes out while her sister gives up her virginity to Fernando after he pressurises her to have sex with him. The girl's mother eventually comes back and finds out about Elena's carnal antics with Fernando. Unimpressed, she drives the girls back to Paris. Stopping at a rest stop because she is tired, something very startling happens to the three female characters. An axeman comes out of nowhere and butchers the mother and Elena. He rapes Anaïs in the woods, relieving her of her virginity status misery - she insists nothing happened to her. A warped ending to the film then. It starts off with teenage concerns about virginity then descends into startling horror madness. The attack at the end is a shocking and brutal finale to the film.
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!