Yesterday a saw EDTO in BARS festival, and it's a nicely done movie, with great visuals and atmosphere, but without any passion at all; maybe it's because of the wooden acting from the two girls and specially from the two males characters that are so bad! they speak as kids from a school play, telling their lines with no emotion and almost in a robotic way... so you have a great location near the sea, a beautiful house with a somber forest nearby, excellent visual and audio effects, and a very interesting story: a girl living with her father in this country house receive an unexpected guest: her ill cousin, a gorgeous brunette that, as she gets better, escape to the forest every night and... I'm not gonna tell you but there will be blood, dark secrets, girls play... all these promising ideas go away because of the wooden acting, the lack of passion or chemistry between the two girls (specially a key scene in the film, that involve the two girls kissing each other, my god I kiss my mother in the cheek with more passion!) and a poor ending; so this is a 5 mostly for the atmosphere and visuals...
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I had to make myself finish.
godschld77779 January 2019
Suddenly this brilliant suspense film appeared out of nowhere
Victor_Santamaria1 February 2020
One of the best suspense and horror films made in the last years. A lost gem I guess, maybe for a lack of marketing. When we talk about Argentine cinema we are talking always about something excellent and superior in every way.
You will not easily forget the experience especially if you did not expect to find something like that.
You will not easily forget the experience especially if you did not expect to find something like that.
Day by darkness.
DoorsofDylan8 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Looking round for a Horror title that me and a friend could enjoy in the run-up to Halloween,I was pleased to spot on a self an intriguing-sounding film I had picked up years ago, after reading Kim Newman's review for it in UK movie magazine Empire, leading to me letting the darkness in.
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Casting an apocalyptic mist over the rabies outbreak skyline, composer Jorge Chikiar unveils a textured, Ambient score, which carves out an atmosphere of slow-burn dread, as darkness falls on Julia. Gazing into Julia's eyes as the disease eats away, director Martin De Salvo & cinematographer Nicolas Trovato sit in the family home with excellent, long take wide-shots listening in on the breakdown of the family.
Covering the walls of the house with flakes of dried blood, De Salvo & Trovato cut through the infected haze with ultra-stylized whip-pans, first person tracking shots, and foreboding, refine close-ups, on Julia and Virginia dancing to a lesbian romance, until distorted, narrow corridor shots, framing Virginia as a vampire-style creature, lurking in the darkest corner of the house, on her own.
Bringing light into the trim 78 minute run time, Marta Lubos and Romina Paula give hypnotic performances as Virginia and Julia, thanks to both of them capturing the burning fear that entangles them into a a romantic embrace, until the suffocating doom, seeps in and drowns them out. Sketching out a rabies outbreak leaving the town sparse, the feature film debut screenplay by Josefina Trotta paints a brittle, bleak cabin fever picture, of all the warmth, support and love Julia and Virginia share with their family, being decayed by darkness.
View on the film:
Casting an apocalyptic mist over the rabies outbreak skyline, composer Jorge Chikiar unveils a textured, Ambient score, which carves out an atmosphere of slow-burn dread, as darkness falls on Julia. Gazing into Julia's eyes as the disease eats away, director Martin De Salvo & cinematographer Nicolas Trovato sit in the family home with excellent, long take wide-shots listening in on the breakdown of the family.
Covering the walls of the house with flakes of dried blood, De Salvo & Trovato cut through the infected haze with ultra-stylized whip-pans, first person tracking shots, and foreboding, refine close-ups, on Julia and Virginia dancing to a lesbian romance, until distorted, narrow corridor shots, framing Virginia as a vampire-style creature, lurking in the darkest corner of the house, on her own.
Bringing light into the trim 78 minute run time, Marta Lubos and Romina Paula give hypnotic performances as Virginia and Julia, thanks to both of them capturing the burning fear that entangles them into a a romantic embrace, until the suffocating doom, seeps in and drowns them out. Sketching out a rabies outbreak leaving the town sparse, the feature film debut screenplay by Josefina Trotta paints a brittle, bleak cabin fever picture, of all the warmth, support and love Julia and Virginia share with their family, being decayed by darkness.
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