Publisher's Synopsis
Martyrs is the second in the RoosterVision series, which presents personal analysis alongside critical discussion of films that have had everlasting impacts on authors and their work. Pascal Laugier' s masterpiece, Martyrs, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Cannes in 2008 and has gone on to be considered a classic of the New French Extremity. In the film, we meet Anna and Lucie, two survivors of childhood abuse. When Lucie exacts revenge on the family that she believes tortured her, a series of violent events unfold that are intended to haunt the viewer long after the film has finished...
