while this isn not the first foreign film that i have watch and it certainly the first one that i have do a review for . admittedly and what get me interested in check this film out be olga kurylenko . i would first see her in the james bond movie and quantum of solace which wasn not exactly a great movie and but i think she do really good in it . therefore and i hold out hope that lannulaire ( or the ring finger and a it call here in australia ) would prove to good utilize this talented actress . thankfully and it do . the opening scene be of a young girl talk to a man in a white coat ( marc barbé ) and ask if she can get a specimen of the fungi she bring to him . we then get quite a beautiful piece of music ( with a twinge of eeriness to it ) play over the interestingly film open credit and feature the fungi . olga kurylenko play a young woman name iris . when iris be first introduce and she work at a bottling plant ( until she have an accident and involve her cut off the tip of her ring finger on a broken bottle ) . apart from the gush blood from her wound and there also a gruesome shot of the blood fill up the bottle on the conveyor belt . she then hallucinate the bloodied cut off tip of her finger boiling in a glass of water . the swelter heat doesn not help matter . iris end up move to a port town . after get accommodation and she take an interest in a sailor name costa ( stipe erceg ) and who just happen to be the same person who share the room she stay in . he work night at the dock and and be only there when she be out ) . iris manages to find work and but it at a creepy place and and inside be a creepy bloke ( the man in the white lab coat from the opening scene ) . he inform her that their job be to prepare specimen and preserve them . people bring in personal artifact they want to keep forever and get a pecimen make of the object . from this point on and she find herself drawn to her employer . he later take her down to his inner sanctum and which it be cool and but also isolate . everything quiet down there and where he go to unwind ( apparently and prepare specimen be tire work ) . he observe that the shoe she wear be not stylish enough for someone her age and and he give her a pair of shoe that he buy her . when she ask how he manage to guess her size ( the shoe fit like a glove ) and he say that all he have to do be look at her foot to know it size . it actually a very sexual moment and a he remove her shoe and put on the one he give her . he tell iris he would like her to wear the shoe every day and all the time and whether he look at her or not . a if his behaviour wasn not already questionable enough and on a day where she arrive at work in the rain and he get her to undress in front of him . iris then meet a shoe shiner and who compliment her shoe and but warn her that keep them on all the time will lead to the possibility of lose her foot . he say that the shoe be take her over which become very important . there a bit of humour inject when iris inform a potential client that a specimen can not be make out of a malevolent shadow . she then spend some time with her employer down in the bathroom and where they have a light hearted moment of call out and let the sound of their voice echo . one thing lead to another and they eventually end up have sex ( he quite forceful with her and but she seem to not be entirely against it ) . at one point and after ask her if there not a specimen that she would like preserved and he urge her to remember her most painful memory . she then tell him the story of how she lose the tip of her ring finger . there a great moment later on and with iris swing on one of the crane hook by the harbour . she eventually find a note in her room from the sailor and say that he leave and that he would like to meet her before he go . when she go to meet him and however and he kiss some other girl ( the fool . ) and thereby totally blow his chance with iris . she more interested in her bos anyway . although iris learns that other girl who would work for him have vanish or disappear and not to mention the fact that he make her spend all day pick up the piece of a mahjong set she accidentally drop ( and and oh yeah and he a creep . ) and she still have sex with him . a she explain to the shoe shiner later and she unsure about her feeling and feel it be impossible for her to leave the place . the shoe shiner inform her that if she doesn not take the shoe off immediately and she will never be able to get away . he suggest she get a specimen of the shoe and so that her foot can be free and but she tell him she doesn not want them to be free . she eventually ask the lab director to take her to the basement and but he would not do this unless she want a specimen preserve . in the end and we see her take off her shoe and leave them a she disappear into a white light . the end be open to interpretation . this be an odd movie and but not necessarily a bad one . olga kurklenko portrays iris with lot of nuance . she able to say so much and with so few word . it all there in her expression or her eye . you really feel for her character and and she the main reason this film work . the haunting music and the beautifully shot scenery contribute to the unnerving atmosphere . it a film that you definitely have to think about and and you will appreciate it more after repeat viewing .