A possible new French movie of interest, released in November 2023…

If horror cinema occupies a special place in the American cinematic landscape, in France, it’s another story. The proposals for such a thing have been regular since a “gore” revival in the 2000s, but in recent years the flame has rarely been lit in France. However, in the heart of a mine in the north of France, the young director Mathieu Turi has dug up a very flammable new nugget [in the form of his new movie]. Turi first introduces his spectator to the atmosphere of the coal mines over a splendid thirty minutes build-up [in which French miners in 1956 must take a professor down to take samples], in order to build a controlled atmosphere [around which] Turi gradually builds a cryptic Lovecraftian aura.

This appears to be the young director’s third movie.