Film Review – 100 Nights of Hero

“100 Nights of Hero” is an adaptation of a 2016 graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg, who blends the storytelling angle of “One Thousand and One Nights” to help invent a female-centric study of oppression and passion in a fantasy world of patriarchal control. It’s a tricky concept to the bring to the screen, putting writer/director Julia Jackman (“Bonus Track”) to work on world-building with a small budget and limited actors. The vision for the production is impressive, as Jackman hopes to delve into forbidden love and torturous experiences involving male oppressors. The execution of the feature is another story, and Jackman attempts to cast a spell over the viewer, luring them in with specialized production design details and acts of longing, but the slow-burn ways of the picture offer little dramatic reward. “100 Nights of Hero” ends up ambitious, but it’s also quite glacial. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com