After viewing the slick Horror Comedy Mayhem (2017-also reviewed) for the Comedy viewing challenge on ICM, I started looking for a title to view for the Cinema of Spain challenge also happening on ICM. Checking my unplayed downloads of films from Spain,this title caught my eye.
View on the film:
Teaming up together after having each separately made documentary shorts, co-writers/co-directors Jacinto Esteva & Joaquim Jorda bring the capturing the moment of documentaries, into their incredible fragmented surreal creation.
Splashing stories a woman (played the enticingly mysterious Serena Vergano) tells a disinterested man across the screen which visibly displays a poster for Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou (1965), the co-directors bring the fluidity of the French New Wave to each story, with the airless state of the camera flying on a atmosphere of it dovetailing each tale.
Along with eyeing enough eye surgery footage to make Lucio Fulci giddy, the directors make the 75 minutes move at the blink of a eye,thanks to a astonishing flow of multiple filming styles crystallising a surreal atmosphere of fading changes in colour tinting, abrasive altering of film stock and freeze frame photographs, all turning on in-camera tricks that turn time back three minutes before the world ends.
View on the film:
Teaming up together after having each separately made documentary shorts, co-writers/co-directors Jacinto Esteva & Joaquim Jorda bring the capturing the moment of documentaries, into their incredible fragmented surreal creation.
Splashing stories a woman (played the enticingly mysterious Serena Vergano) tells a disinterested man across the screen which visibly displays a poster for Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou (1965), the co-directors bring the fluidity of the French New Wave to each story, with the airless state of the camera flying on a atmosphere of it dovetailing each tale.
Along with eyeing enough eye surgery footage to make Lucio Fulci giddy, the directors make the 75 minutes move at the blink of a eye,thanks to a astonishing flow of multiple filming styles crystallising a surreal atmosphere of fading changes in colour tinting, abrasive altering of film stock and freeze frame photographs, all turning on in-camera tricks that turn time back three minutes before the world ends.