Breathing In (1 Star)

This is the 26th film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.

The film takes place in 1901 during the Boer War. A young soldier takes refuge in a tent where two women live, an elderly woman and her daughter. There's also a general who's unable to speak or get out of bed. He doesn't seem to be wounded. Maybe it's post traumatic stress.

It was by far the most boring film of the festival so far. For 90 minutes the women speak to the soldier about the horrors of war. There are several hints that something supernatural is happening, such as red lights on the battlefield outside the tent, but nothing stops the endless chattering.

I shan't shy away from spoilers in this review, because so little happens. Possibly the younger woman is a succubus. Or maybe they both are. When the film starts the young woman is weak, hardly able to walk, but at the end of the film the older woman kills the soldier, after which she's fit. It took 90 minutes before anything happened. 90 minutes of talking in a small space. Awful!

And yet the film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Did the film critics see something that I didn't?