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Amer

  • 20092009
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  • 1h 30m
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6.1/10
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Amer (2009)
  • Horror
  • Thriller
As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worl... Read allAs a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.
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  • Directors
    • Hélène Cattet
    • Bruno Forzani
  • Writers
    • Hélène Cattet
    • Bruno Forzani
  • Stars
    • Cassandra Forêt
    • Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud
    • Marie Bos
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  • Directors
    • Hélène Cattet
    • Bruno Forzani
  • Writers
    • Hélène Cattet
    • Bruno Forzani
  • Stars
    • Cassandra Forêt
    • Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud
    • Marie Bos
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    • 39User reviews
    • 147Critic reviews
    • 72Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 6 nominations

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    Cassandra Forêt
    • Ana enfantas Ana enfant
    Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud
    Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud
    • Ana adolescenteas Ana adolescente
    Marie Bos
    Marie Bos
    • Ana adulteas Ana adulte
    Biancamaria D'Amato
    Biancamaria D'Amato
    • La mèreas La mère
    Harry Cleven
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    Jean-Michel Vovk
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    Bernard Marbaix
    • La grand-père mortas La grand-père mort
    Thomas Bonzani
    • Nono, l'adolescentas Nono, l'adolescent
    François Cognard
    • La silhouetteas La silhouette
    Delphine Brual
    • Graziellaas Graziella
    Jean Secq
    • L'épicieras L'épicier
    Béatrice Butler
    • L'épicièreas L'épicière
    Charles Forzani
    • L'agriculteuras L'agriculteur…
    Benjamin Guyot
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    Yves Fostier
    • Ëboueuras Ëboueur
    Francesco Italiano
    • L'embaumeuras L'embaumeur
    Henriette Raimondé
    • La vieille dame derrière le rideauas La vieille dame derrière le rideau
    Christophe da Silva
    • Motardas Motard
    • Directors
      • Hélène Cattet
      • Bruno Forzani
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      • Hélène Cattet
      • Bruno Forzani
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    • Trivia
      Quentin Tarantino singled out this film as one of his favorite films of 2010.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Lost in Vienna, Austria (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      La coda dello scorpione - seq. 1
      Written by Bruno Nicolai

      Published by Gemelli Edizioni Musicali

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    9/10
    An experience from within the mind, expressed out in the open with vivid imagery - an exceptional film
    I had the great privilege of seeing this Belgian movie called Amer upon its first ever screening at the Fantastic Film Festival here in Lund, Sweden. It was a stroke of luck, given that I had virtually no pre-conceived idea about what this movie was all about, I had just read in the folder something about it being original despite giving a lot of homage to the Italian giallo genre. Didn't sound too bad, I thought. But in my mind the experience of Amer left a vastly bigger impression than almost any giallo I've ever seen. Not that a movie like Profondo Rosso isn't excellent, but this is just whole other story.

    The giallo connection is confusing, so I'll just point out that the movie really isn't a giallo at all. It does give a lot of hints and bows, specially to the greatest works of Bava and Argento, but it's not preoccupied with these details at all, they remain details, and what the movie instead does is present a visual feast that you can only feel and experience. You're not doing yourself any favors by trying to follow a plot. I'd call Amer a drama, but that would also be misleading.

    The movie is divided into three segments. In the first one we are in a spooky big mansion, following a little girl and her wandering about through rooms and hallways. She has a firm and hard looking mother dressed in mourning black. In one of the rooms lies a dead old man. She is consistently followed by a monstrous figure all dressed in black. Everything she experiences, she experience to the fullest and it's no use trying to part reality from dream world. When the little girl's feelings are strong enough, there seems to be no difference and the movie seems to continually express her mental world, rather than the "real". There is a magnificent, mindblowing scene where she catches her mother having sex with her lover. The incomprehensible sight causes the movie itself to literary break down. Words simply can't describe it.

    In the second segment we see the same girl, now slightly older. But, certainly, not "old enough". We see her walk in sunlight, firmly side by side with her mother, both wearing summer dresses that dance along with the cinematography. Everywhere there are male predators. She runs away from her mother. She meet boys. She meet men. There is a tension and a danger in every shot, at times it seems as if the movie is breathing along with the characters, and it is impossible to tell if the danger is a thing of lust or a threat of death. In the third segment she is an adult, returning to the house of her childhood which now stands dead and abandoned. But the figure in black that haunted her as a child does not sleep.

    I don't know when I will get the chance of seeing this movie again. It feels like a love story in my mind, I yearn and long for my long lost love. Will we ever see each other again? I can't deny that Amer is the definitive wet dream for a film critic or a film student, because it tempers with the limits of where narrative ends and imagery begins. It has the visual flair of Argento, but the perception of the characters and their world is as transcendent as in Tarkovsky's Mirror. The movie is jam packed with images that are surreal, deeply moving, sensual, scary and exceptionally beautiful. I keep feeling tempted to make silly metaphors like "the cinematography is making love with the editing" but you know what, that's exactly what this movie feels like. And I also think that it lays way beyond the shallow vanity that I guess you could accuse Argento for. I think the movie is expressing the feelings of the characters as they experience them. It is a rare thing in movies when you as a spectator can actually feel the heat of the sun, the sting from the thorn bushes, the spider crawling all over your body. It is unbelievably rare that we experience being given the look when the character feels it too. Most movies attempting to gain any kind of erotic charge fail for even trying. I have no idea how they manage to make it work in Amer. It is truly a fascinating piece of work that transcend from beyond the screen and somehow lures the audience in too. It might just be the most seductive film I have ever seen. From the insanely imaginative imagery in the beginning, to the profoundly striking close-range perspective in the adolescent middle, and the sheer weird and poetic amusement of the finale, Amer is just one of the rarest gems of movie making I have seen in a long time. I somehow have a feeling I won't be able to present my feelings for it in a proper way, and I do suspect it is a film that has to be seen to be believed, understood, experienced. I can, however, clearly state that it is one of the best movies I have seen this entire decade.
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    • Release date
      • March 3, 2010 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Belgium
      • France
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Mái Nhà Xưa
    • Filming locations
      • Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France
    • Production companies
      • Anonymes Films
      • Tobina Film
      • Canal+
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    • Budget
      • €880,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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