Woods
2016 · 3m
Directed by Max Lincoln
Genres: drama, experimental, thriller
Two girls trapped in a never-ending cycle of revenge, in a cyclical narrative with the look and feel of a fashion film.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A revenge cycle dressed up in fashion-film aesthetics—so on-brand it almost disappears into its own styling. The surreal mythic angle rescues it from being pure surfaces, but just barely.
Lincoln threads a formal needle here: the cyclical structure demands rigorous editing to avoid repetition, and the fashion-film vocabulary becomes a deliberate formal choice that elevates the mythic register without descending into pastiche. This is craft aware of its own lineage.
The decision to shoot like a fashion film—all surface and gesture—becomes the precise formal move that makes the revenge cycle feel weightless and trapped rather than heavy-handed; that single aesthetic commitment does all the thematic work.
Reviews
A cyclical revenge narrative with the look and feel of a fashion film. Featuring two girls trapped in a never ending cycle of revenge.