MANDY

Panos Cosmatos, son of the director of Rambo 2 and Cobra and living proof that body counts are a family matter, offers Nicolas Cage a role worthy of his extravagance. The actor plays a persecuted lumberjack who vents his anger on a gang of bikers and members of a sect.

In Mandy, everything is excessive, from the interplay of the actors and the desaturated psychedelic photography to the music of Johann Johannsson. The film is a tribute to the zaniest of present-day actors, and a radical work that pulls out all the stops. By drawing on its dreamlike dimension, while continually detouring to a splatter B movie, Cosmatos has made a singular and intriguing film.