José Pedro Lopes

Entering The Forest of the Lost Souls is like observing a waking dream that slowly turns into a nightmare. This Portuguese production filmed in black and white by writer-director, José Pedro Lopes takes a philosophical look at suicide with a black comic edge before guiding the viewer down a sinister path that no amount of bread crumbs can lead you back from. Find out if this film is right for you in our The Forest of the Lost Souls movie review. This is the second foreign film I have reviewed in the last two weeks, but this one had a hook in being an import from Portugal. As someone who is semi-fluent in Portuguese (it’s been over a decade since I was fully immersed), the language barrier was not going to be an issue for me, but at the same time that meant that the mystique of unfamiliar words and sounds was gone, leaving my critical eye free from distraction. So how did The Forest of the Dark Souls hold