Entering the Twilight Zone

This strange but cumulatively impressive film from Georgian director Georges Babluani has a forlorn young roofer stealing an envelope from an elderly client who has died without paying him and finding a train ticket and a hotel reservation inside.

He uses them, only to discover he is the 13th contestant in a game of Russian roulette played out in front of professional gamblers.

The players have to stand in a circle with a gun pointed at the head of the man in front and there's a large cash prize for the sole survivor. It is not exactly money for old rope, but he perseveres through thick and thin.

There's a desolate, almost clinical menace about things, like an episode of the Twilight Zone made by Pasolini, with a dash of Cocteau in the mix. It tends to seep into the mind whether you like it or not.

13 (Tzameti)
Cert: 15