The incredible Mandy has been available on Netflix since February 5. The opportunity to return to this lunar and unique film, directed by Panos Cosmatos and worn by Nicolas Cage. Another amazing and explosive role for the actor, who lets go completely.
Mandy: a one-of-a-kind work
For his first film, Panos Cosmatos hit very hard. Because Mandy doesn't look like anything. By this status of unique film, cinematographic UFO, the feature film will necessarily divide opinions, feelings, and critics. Far from being unanimously accepted by viewers, Mandy is nevertheless a radical, visually sublime work that offers an intriguing reinterpretation of the old concepts of gratuitous and graphic violence. If the scenario fits on a postage stamp, everything is based on a polished aesthetic, on a design all in relief, almost sometimes experimental. 
Mandy is an ambitious film, both in content and form. A vengeful, magical and nightmarish odyssey, which owes much to the sublime photography of its filmmaker. Lovers of Nicolas Winding Refn 's cinema will not be disoriented, as Panos Cosmatos bases all his dimension as an author on a stunning visual approach.
A hallucinatory and lunar work
With Mandy, Panos Cosmatos shouts all his love for genre cinema. It offers a fièr representative of a unique cinematographic style, offbeat, depraved, lunar and above all totally phantasmagorical. Via a deliberately slow pace, it will leave more than one on the tile. Some will cry "intellectual jerk", a formalist posture sometimes empty, like the detractors of NWR (again him). Mandy is a dripping, hyperbolic film, where everything is magnified, iconized, stylized, with a lot of application. 
Between dream and nightmare, Mandy tells her story, so simple in appearance, through an imposing romantic and chimerical prism. Panos Cosmatos puts both feet in the dish and makes no concessions. He signs a disturbing and hypnotic film, which will inevitably divide the common man. But for lovers of beautiful images, still shots, contemplation, if the cinematographic violence does not bother, Mandy is a perfect representative of this artistic genre.
Master Nicolas Cage
And then, Nicolas Cage is stunning. The actor lets loose in this opus where he can cabotise freely, without restriction, and give himself to heart joy to offer even more memes to the internet. In the middle of all his turnips, sometimes a work is born outside of time and space. A niche independent cinema, under the globalist radar of mainstream American cinema. An unexpected candy, like the recent Color out of Space, available on Amazon Prime Video. 
It must be said that in Mandy, Panos Cosmatos offers him a role to his excess. At the height of its madness, its grandeur and its permanent shift with the whole coming from Hollywood. He screams, shouts, suffers, laughs, and becomes totally stamped in this work that puts him in postures in the image of his talent. A bizarre film for a strange actor, for a zany performance, incredible, abracadabrant and above all totally hallucinated. Mandy is an exciting B-series. The inspirations are numerous, NWR and Carpenter in mind. Visually superb, carried by an inhabited Nicolas Cage, the feature film allows a descent into hell that farts a little but which highlights interesting religious and metaphysical concepts. It's slow, beautiful, violent, intriguing, gory and disturbing.
