"Tears of Kali" is, despite the title, a German German-language film from 2004 and this one runs for 105 minutes approximately. The writer and director is Andreas Marschall and this is perhaps his most known work. He is fairly multi-talented, for example a prolific editor too. Well his film here is basically 3 in one and these three short films have components in common, but are otherwise not really linked to one another. Being the same genre (horror, mystery, maybe fantasy) isn't enough. The biggest name in the cast list here is Mathieu Carrière, but it makes me a bit sad to see his fall from how respected he once was and with the great names he worked with, even if this is already decades ago. He is featured prominently in the third and final chapter here, which is also the longest from the entire film and it fits well that it is named Kali, so maybe you could say that it is in the center of it all. But Carrière can also only do so much and while he elevates the material at times, he certainly cannot make up for all the mediocrities in here. Anyway, the rest of the cast is not known to me really and from what I saw in here, that's not a great loss. I was never thrilled by one of the three chapters and the film does look amateurish at times. It is never as atmospheric as you could hope for that it will get you to the edge of your seat. Plus the characters are most of the time not particularly interesting, let alone memorable. Oh well, it is not a failure as a whole because here and there there is a good moment, but I would say the negative and forgettable dominates these 1 hour and 45 minutes. Don't watch.
Review of Tears of Kali
