Review: Juliane Block’s 3 LIVES Highlights Afflicting Causality Of Trauma And Injustice
Director Juliane Block casts a mind-bending spotlight on the subject of sexual assault through the visage of a harrowing survival thriller in 3 Lives. Block pairs up with actress Mhairi Calvey this time around with a script by Wolf Peter-Arand that centers on a psychiatrist who finds herself on the run in a heavily-wooded forest with two men tied to her traumatic past. Calvey plays Emma, awakened in a cage in underground, frightened and later approached by two other individuals mysteriously captured as well. Seconds later they manage to free her, only to reveal themselves as Ben (Tyron Ricketts), her convicted rapist from fifteen years ago, and Jamie (Martin Kaps), Ben’s supposed defender during trial, triggering Emma’s defenses. Upon exiting the cave, they’re instantly pursued by a trio of sadistic solider-like foes, later revealed to be members of the French foreign legion. As to why they’re so pursuant of Emma […]
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