In her first feature outing, which premiered this September at TIFF and also showed at the Mannaheim Film Festival, Argentinian director Agustina San Martín, delivers a strong and aberrant story about sexual rediscovery in the face of superstitious customs, that can be best described as: a lot of travelling, for very little dinner. Although its gloominess never abates, making it quite an enjoyable and thought-provoking mood piece, it could have used some stronger plotting to hold the weight of interesting subtext.
The film starts with a phone call, made by a 17-year-old Emilia (Tamara Rocca), to her brother Mateo. They haven’t been close for quite some time but she urgently needs to talk to him, and he never picks up. As the camera is slowly roaming around Mateo’s messy and empty house, we hear Emilia’s voice on the answering machine saying that soon she’ll be coming to his place and that.
The film starts with a phone call, made by a 17-year-old Emilia (Tamara Rocca), to her brother Mateo. They haven’t been close for quite some time but she urgently needs to talk to him, and he never picks up. As the camera is slowly roaming around Mateo’s messy and empty house, we hear Emilia’s voice on the answering machine saying that soon she’ll be coming to his place and that.
- 11/25/2021
- by Nikola Jovic
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A beast has arrived at a small town on the border between Argentina and Brazil. People talk about it being the spirit of an evil man transforming into different animals to stalk its prey. Women are told to be afraid just as they’re told they’ll be protected. Whether businessmen, men of God, or neighbors, no one will rest until the creature is caught. Except, of course, that it never will be. Because while we see it as a bull watching from the forest, we know this spirit actually takes its form from a different species. Its many faces come in the form of those businessmen, men of God, and neighbors. It feeds on tradition, power, and violence. And it will pounce unless its prey emboldens itself to fight back.
Fear is what drove Mateo from his home, the person he became proving too unpredictable and aggressive to stay.
Fear is what drove Mateo from his home, the person he became proving too unpredictable and aggressive to stay.
- 9/10/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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