conann

When the world was dark and ancient tales were still believed, a girl was born who would become the mightiest warrior of all time: Barbarians slaughter her mother and enslave young Conann, but her liberation sets in motion a cycle of rebirth that takes the fearsome warrior and her faithful canine companion, Rainer, from the icy forests of their childhood to neon-lit metropolises of bizarre violence. And again and again, Conann encounters her nemesis Sanja - and a fight to the death ensues...

CONANN is a challenge to the senses. The third film by the eccentric director Bertrand Mandico, his rigorous reinterpretation of the classic barbarian myth sends his protagonist, embodied by half a dozen actresses, on a stylistically grotesque blood orgy. A uniquely sublime pièce de résistance.