Saint Francis

Saint Francis

Redemption

PAL All Region DVD

Dita Von Teese Queen of Burlesque stars in her debut feature film Saint Francis. Having already proved herself as a burlesque beauty and fashion favourite, she has appeared in men’s magazines from Playboy to Penthouse, she has now turned her talents to film in this new and challenging thriller.

Francis Bernard is a liar and a junky who lives by theft to feed his addiction. His consistent drug use and lack of sleep has caused him to exist in a world where reality and the imagination are constantly merging. He is delusional and at times borders on psychosis. As these two worlds collide he sees the past in color brimming with flashes of memory pulled from the more tormented facets of his life. At the same time, Bernard experiences the present, where he is a medical patient suffering at the hands of a mysterious surgical team, in shades of black and white. It is in this state he has visions of the future whereby his sister commits a terrible crime, a fate from which he must save her in order to complete his journey and maybe even redeem himself.

Saint Francis can be seen as the tale of a very dysfunctional family. The story unfolds from when Francis was six years old and he sees his mother commit suicide. He is haunted by the memories of his mother’s death as they repeat over and over again in his fragmented psyche.

As the surgical team continue to work on Francis, more of his past is revealed in flashes of memory, dreams and nightmares. It is now many years later and the head of the family is Dr.P. Bernard. He is the pastor of “The Church of Forever”, which is a strange televangelism ministry preaching a new gospel mixing science fiction with religion. But the family is not the wholesome and virtuous unit one may expect. Soul, Francis’ sister, is a Madame running a high end brothel which supplies girls to the family and various well-to-do Church members.

Sid, the younger brother, runs a drug business. Both Soul and Sid are not especially good “crime managers” and are having problems keeping up payments to their supplier. It seems they now owe a large figure to Sniper, the local drug lord and he is on the war path.

Soon the various threads of this dysfunctional family begin to intertwine with Francis’ hallucinations and growing mental disturbance. From strange Alien Abductions to Sci Fi religions, drugs to hookers, visions to madness, this strange tale mixes eroticism with a dark and macabre journey into insanity, religious obsession and perhaps even beyond.

Extras include:

- Extended sexy scenes with world famous porn stars

- Music video with Dita Von Teese

- Saint Francis trailer

- Satanic Sluts teaser featurette

- Redemption trailers

This review will appear in Volume 2 No.3 (2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.

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