The movie starts in the projection booth of an almost deserted movie theater in Argentina where "Touch Of Evil" is showing and ends outside the same theater,with a crowd leaving, but now the movie theater is a porno house. There is a palpable, visible change in Adrian LeDuc, the theater owner as well. This astonishing study on the horrors of sexual/political repression is given the shape of a thriller and the result is one of the most entertaining, unexpected, erotic cat and mouse stories I've ever seen. I thought I had everything figured out in two or three occasions and I was wrong every time. Martin Donovan, the director, tells the real story between the lines of a thriller, The real story is so private, so intimate, that it would be impossible to put into words. Everything said means something else or, means something more. "We're allowed one or two...hundred idiosyncrasies..." Adrian tells Jack to justify some of his weirdness. Perfect chemistry between a sensational an unrecognizable Colin Firth and Hart Bochner an actor I've only remembered in Die Hard. Here, he gives a performance of so many layers and faces that I don't quite get why he's not a major star. (I'm Netflixing everything I can find with him in it) The film spends a great deal of time with some of the supporting players, sometimes too much but mostly is a pleasure to abandon what we had embarked on and be distracted by a new story line that seems to take the movie into another direction completely to be pull back violently into the mainstream when you least expected. There is a strange sense of dread that runs through the entire film and it's that sense that keeps the whole movie together. My only advise: try not to see it alone in your own apartment. 9/10
Review of Apartment Zero
