Few things are as rare as a sincere conversion. To truly repent requires much more than the simple fear of consequences. Conversion demands a powerful reconnection. Crossing a bridge that until recently didn’t exist within you. Or if it did exist, it was hidden in rivers of mist, fear, or denial. Conversion requires a shock so powerful that it will make a gigantic root of empathy sprout from your chest and link you with new eyes to the world. A new world. When conversion is not sincere, what may remain is despair and horror. Guilt without direction. Chaos. And it is around this idea of lost redemption that Director Luigi Scarpa crafted his film IVI ElV. In this work, a confused man lost in fragments of his last and shameful memories escapes from the incarnate and decadent body of his most atrocious moment. This man, portrayed by the excellent Corrado Bega, wanders in increasing despair in minimal and claustrophobic settings, or in exteriors, marked by savagery and death. However, everything is well-exploited, both from a cinematographic perspective and in the choice of angles and practical effects. Scarpa’s direction is concise and precise, especially with the cast, which manages to leave its mark in less than eleven minutes and adds an even more professional tone to the whole. The work of a promising director.