There are shades of the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich comedy Paper moon In Melancholy Road, Argentine director Iván Fund message. Regardless of the black and white cinematography and the background of the financial crisis, this is a film about a family of pieces that profit from selling hope. in Paper moon This included the sale of the carved gospels to the sad widows desperate due to the memorial of their late husbands. hypothesis message It seems more harsh: this rough trio wanders in the countryside with a little girl who can communicate with animals, alive or dead. But although this, on the surface, it will appear to be deceived on an equal footing with the Nigerian prince's fraud, the box movie is going more than that.
The little girl is Annika (Annika Potz), who travels with her parents, Myriam (Mara Bustley) and Roger (Marcelo Sobioto) in the vehicle of the cart that barely suitable for two adults. What the relationship takes some time to become clear, because Myriam is too big to be her mother, and Anca invites them with their first names. When we meet them for the first time, their sleep is annoyed by a man carrying a turtle – although Annika and butter bread are cats and dogs, the gift that enables it to “communicate with the soul” to any living creature, which will later include the hedgehog and the most poisonous, Capibara .
The huge amount of 12,000 peso (about 12 dollars) changes and the three return on the road. After stopping the selection of corn on a piece of corn field, their next stop is a domestic animal cemetery where Annika communicates with a dog called Snoope. It is a strange and massive life, and it is difficult to know exactly its salaries. Roger and Miriam enjoy their jewelry, which looks very elegant for the Carney people, and it seems that Roger always has a thick cash basin, which may suggest either hidden wealth or excessive inflation. They even have a website, and later spoke.
These are not countless mystery that is of interest to what could be a very simple story. This even extends to the gift of Annika, which, as it was said, passes through the female line of her family: when Miriam takes a new agent, she does not completely give them the difficult sale. Annika appears “the second sight”, or whatever it is, randomly, sometimes in colors, sometimes in Nepia, at some point in sensations, and sometimes in the smells. Nobody hits an eye on this, even when you return to a return from Tête-à-Tête with the young angry cat she tells it, such as one of the many surreal assurances of the car radio in Jean Cocosus Orvius“The housewife hides the facts.”
Things become more evident when myriam Annika takes her mother's vision – the daughter of Myriam – who lives in a mental hospital, strange, dramatic details, and that bring the boxes to the end to some extent emotionally but hidden. But although his movie can definitely be used a little More in the path of narration and perhaps even context, the box may be right in the side of mystery, and does not reach certain conclusions on the validity of the Annika gift and the motives of her family to exploit it.
Instead, it offers an overwhelming story in the atmosphere, showing the lifestyle of Annika trucks as a kind of chaos (the acute use of the pet store “always in my mind” brings some invisible colors to a screen). The most important of all, however, is a silent reflection on the meaning of everything. Whether Annika has supernatural powers or not, the lives of these people are largely returning here and now, and they are trying to live with them as best as possible.
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festival: Berlin (competition)
exit: Evin Fund
Screenplay: Ivan Fund, Martin Felipe Kastagna
Empty: Mara Bustley, Marcelo Suboto, Annika Potz, Betty Capo
Sales agent: Lotoxus
Running time: 1 hour 31 minutes
