当她的狗在交通事故中丧生时，塔拉被迫取消了她的婚礼。在她狗的鬼魂的帮助下，在天堂的四分五裂的沟渠里，她的小镇一起集会，以确保塔拉有她梦想的婚礼。
A woman in the frame’s foreground watches events unfolding in a room. Suddenly, hitherto hidden by her figure, her double enters the scene, and catastrophe ensues. Is this a tricky horror-mystery-thriller by Dario Argento or Brian De Palma? No, it is the extraordinary, unexpected gesture of Indonesian master Garin Nugroho marrying his penchant for other-worldly fantasy with myriad devices of popular genre. A Rotterdam regular over the past twenty-seven years, Nugroho’s impressive body of work spans features, documentaries and shorts, among these acclaimed Opera Jawa, selected for IFFR 2007. The tale of an enigmatic serial killer within the worlds of art and high fashion owes much to the global form of the giallo genre. Still, Nugroho reveals this framework to accommodate Indonesian mythology and spirituality entirely. Masks, snakes, clothing fabrics, trance dances; this entire iconography takes on a renewed, vibrant meaning in Deadly Love Poem. Likewise, modern criminal psychological profiling sits comfortably alongside the intergenerational traumas of family life and cultural constraints. With its non-stop music score, ever-mobile camera, mind-blowing colour and design scheme, Deadly Love Poem stands as an exhilarating corrective to the snobbish current trend of ’elevated horror’ cinema. Nugroho respects old and new traditions and whips them into an unforeseen, intoxicating delirium. 源自：
墨西哥秘密警察, 国家安全局局长——费尔南多·巴里恩托斯（Fernando Barrientos）正一步一步攀上墨西哥的权利顶峰。 在这条充满阻碍的路上,他将不得不费尽心机,即使需要背叛和杀戮,他也已做好充分的准备。
本片和特吕弗的《四百击》同被誉为法国电影新浪潮的开山之作。