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Thursday 31 October 2013

AMER [2009]

Amer is a hypnotizing Belgian/French surreal horror film from directors Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani who stylishly paint it to seem like a Dario Argento piece.
A giallo in every way, the film is broken up into three different time periods of a women's life, from an ignored little girl, to an opressed teenager and finally an uncomfortable young woman.  Her sensuality and sexuality are strongly focused on through unsettling photography and cleverly emphasized sound effects all of which keep the viewer in 100% discomfort from beginning to end.  Not a whole lot happens to drive the plot forward but when it does you wish for your nerve's sake that it would have just stayed mildly unsettling rather than the bizarrely violent and scary.

4 watchful eyes out of 5

1 comment:

Dr Faustus said...

Sounds fantastic.
Even the cover art is fantastic.