55th BFI London Film Festival: ‘Monk’ held together by a towering performance from Vincent Cassel
The Monk (Le Moine) Directed by Dominik Moll Written by Dominik Moll and Anne-Louise Trividic, from the novel by Matthew Lewis France, 2011 Dominik Moll’s The Monk is so redolent with Gothic gloom, overweening piety and suppressed lust that it’s almost in danger of self-combusting. It’s held together by a towering performance from Vincent Cassel, …