pulp_post Review of Historias del desencanto

Historias del desencanto (2005)

A surreal love story involving a young artist, his teenager friend and a harpy.

[9/10 · 26 February 2007]

I saw this film yesterday at Fantasporto, the International Movie Festival of Porto, and I liked it a lot. The aesthetics of this movie are intense and might even shock some viewers, for this film works like visual surrealism on some philosophy of dreams. It is like a dream looking at reality and finding it difficult to accept, even though there is a plot that is not that hard to figure. Excellent idea and a great work on the visual elements, I rated it 9/10 because I think there's just one shortcoming in this movie - it's a rather long one for its purpose, for sometimes it seems to develop a plot that should not be missed in surreal terms.