Por favor no me abandones (2022) User Reviews

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[morrison-dylan-fan · 1/10 · 6 April 2022]

Being the first ever film festival that I attended in person,I was thrilled to learn recently that Cine-Excess were holding an online weekend festival. Signing up,I went for the first title that came up on the page.

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Backed by a fittingly droning score, writer/ director Antonio Rotunno makes an extremely irritating feature film debut of long, drawn-out stilted takes, which whilst aiming to shock, miss and instead hit a numbing atmosphere.

Offering paper thin psychological depth to the characters in the script, Rotunno & cinematographer Victor Vazquez douse the movie in over-saturated colours, that take sting from the intended shock from the close-ups on the gore, leaving the would-be set-pieces in a grinding, repetitive loop, with any trace of Horror left abandoned.

Am I missing something?

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 1 September 2022]

Helena (Valentina Sumavsky) has been living with her boyfriend Jesus (Jesús Meza) and things have been going well. But the past, well, the past has made Helena constantly wondering when her happiness will end. Drugs, emotional issues, past damage -- she knows that this relationsip will end soon and it starts to take her into a very dismal place.

Directed and written by Antonio Rotunno, the movie quickly moves into Helena dispatching of Jesus in a long, drawing out sequence with plenty of stabbing. So much stabbing. And then more stabbing. Followed by her sewing job reminding her of that skinny blade going in and out of skin, over and over. Concealing the defensive wounds under sunglasses, she keeps up the appearance of a normal life, but when others want to see Jesus and people start asking questions, it gets harder and harder to keep the corpse of her once alive lover in the house, leading to her having to dispose of the body as well as anyone who gets too close.

I was hoping for more in this movie but it gets to its most dramatic moments early and then the close -- which echoes the open of The New York Ripper's dog reveal -- seemed like too cute of a button after all the horror that I'd just seen. Maybe it'll work better for you or it's meant to be watched with others, because it all left me rather cold.