Director
Danis Tanovic picks up where the late-
Krzysztof Kieslowski left off by taking on the second installment of
Kieslowski's "
Heaven," "
Hell," and "Purgatory" trilogy (the first was adapted by
Run Lola Run director
Tom Tykwer) with this tale of a family whose dark past returns with a vengeance. Loosely modeled by screenwriter
Krzysztof Piesiewicz on the second act of
Dante's Inferno,
Hell tells the story of sisters Sophie (
Emmanuelle Béart), Céline (
Karin Viard), and Anne (
Marie Gillain),
whose lives were turned upside down when their father was imprisoned
and their mother was rendered a wheelchair-bound mute. As the estranged
sisters are slowly brought back together by a mysterious and handsome
stranger who is somehow involved with the tragic events of the past, the
questions that had for years gone unanswered slowly begin to drift into
focus.
