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El poder de las tinieblas (1979)
the road to craziness
"El poder de las tinieblas" (Power of Darkness) is a film based upon a famous novel by argentinian writer Ernesto Sábato INFORME SOBRE CIEGOS. Its plot is simple and powerful: a person begins to believe that every blind man he sees is persecuting him. This fear is gradually growing to reach unexpectable points. The plot is ok, but actors are not playing good enough and, therefore, the film is not so good as the book. Anyway, I think it is a good defy to comprehend some of the not always successful relationships between literature and cinema.
Buenos Aires me mata (1998)
bizarre, but unconsciously
"Buenos Aires me mata" has a really poor plot, and it is (not) sustainted in bad performances. The characters are strongly naive and unpredictable, inmersed in a ridiculous context of drugs and madness.
Imanol Arias, playing a dragqueen, is the one who saves hisself from the disaster. This film is a example of bizarre cinema, but it was made unconsciously.
The Suckling (1990)
really funny and bloody story
Sometimes, fun and blood go together. THE SUCKLING is under that rule. The plot is, of course, of clase B-films and so the FX and the actors. But the result is really funny: a little creature takes a house and its inhabitants and moves misteriously around it. The final scene is one of the more bizarre shots I have ever seen.
Nóz w wodzie (1962)
the perfect narrative
I think that KNIFE IN THE WATER is Polanski's best film, because of its simplicity and depth. Just three characters give shape to a simple story about a couple and a hitchhiker. The rest is Polanski's genius: the eternal ethical problems of human being synthetized in a pair of scenes and dialogues on a boat (jealousy, love, hate, madness, guilty).
In the same line of composition, I could recommend CUL DE SAC, a film with an excellent plot but not superior to this movie.
L'amore (1948)
two portraits of sadness
L'Amore is divided into two parts, the first called "A Human Voice", and the second named "The Miracle". Anna Magnani is wonderful at both. The first episode is about love and sadness. A woman is pursuing for a man who does not love her any longer. The whole episode occurs whitin a bedroom, with Anna and a telephone. The dialogue of Anna with her ex-husband is simply fantastic and very emotive. The second episode, more cryptic and stronger, shows us a medieval Italian town with all its beliefs and supersticions. A woman, Anna Magnani again, makes remember us the mistery of creation, with symbolic references to some christian icons (as virgins, poor people, saints, etc.). In sum, this is a wonderful film.