Title: Almost wordless, haunting, poetic film
Product review: Haunting, meditative, enigmatic film, with very little dialogue. In the Argentine forest a man is released from a rural prison after serving times for killing his two brothers. Most of the movie is his boat journey home to find his daughter. When he gets there he encounters his grandchildren. Is he guilty, innocent? Will he kill the kids? Are they the bodies at the beginning of thefilm, or are those his brothers? The lack of answers could feel like a cop out, but left me with a nightmarish feeling of open ended horror. The style is simple and spare, with long wordless takes. But we know there's something going on, even if we never fully get the answers. Sort of a cinematic, visual equivalent of the plays of Harold Pinter. NB: The Facets DVD is a sadly weak transfer of this very striking looking film, but it's probably your only way to see this fascinating work.
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