I really enjoyed this one too and managed to see it in a theater. Great dark fairy tale. And breathtakingly beautiful as you said. Tarsem also did The Cell, I think. Also very visual, yet lacking on ploy. I'd like to see more from this guy.
Yes, he also made The Cell. The Fall dwells more on the stunning visuals, and you're not distracted by how crap an actress Jennifer Lopez is. He's supposedly working on his third film.
That's the one that was originally called "Haute Tension", right?
I thought that one had some pretty nice scenes (I vaguely remember something about a staircase), so I could live with the plot holes.
That's right. I think it was translated as "High Tension" in the US. It's perfectly well made, reasonably tense, but the plot holes are obnoxious, e.g.
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who's driving the van during the car chase?
Where'd she get the van given she was driven to the location, apparently for the first time?
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