Tuvalu (1999)
7/10
A strange, unique film!
26 February 2023
Hard to write about this movie. What is it actually? What is the message? Does it have a message? Is it all a metaphor? And if so, what would be the key to the mystery? Certainly for many it's a stratospheric sleepiness. All the action takes place inside an old, dilapidated building, ready to fall down, which houses a public bath with a pool in the middle, where hardly anyone comes to bathe. It doesn't have superheroes flying around in body-hugging suits, with Spider-Man or Batman type masks, over the eyes, not the mouth. You will not see more victims in this film than in the bubonic plague, you will not see shootings, destruction, special effects. You will see only one main character, Anton, a not at all handsome young man who makes sure that everything works well in the public bathroom. You will also see an idiot policeman who comes accompanied by an inspector to check that everything is in order. Everything gets complicated when young Eva comes to the bathroom. I won't say more, I don't tell the action of the movies like others do, too many who write reviews, I'll leave it to you to elucidate the deep mystery of the movie, if you have the patience to see it in its entirety, from start to finish. I will tell you only one more thing: no, we will not see Tuvalu, the island country and microstate in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, situated about midway between Hawaii and Australia and no one in the film is from the capital Funafuti.
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