There’s plenty of good buzz swirling around the giallo thriller AMER ever since its premiere at the Sitges film festival; it even landed on Arrow’s Top 10 List (check out his way positive review right HERE). Most of us won’t get a chance to check it out until later this year (hopefully); for now we’ll have to make do with the trailer, which just hit and can be checked out below. It certainly seems to be done in the grand guignol tradition of Mario Bava and Dario Argento…
Desire has always been linked to one’s look. And cinema too. Luis Buñuel knew that very well when he filmed the short of a razor over an eye with a detail shot. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani recover this image in an experimental film with immaculate style. Someone watches a girl through a keyhole. The wind lightly lifts a woman’s skirt as a group of men look on. The fantasy of a dress tearing. Composed of fragments -of eyes, lights, shadows, gestures– and without dialogues, Amer delves into the life of Ana, always halfway between the real and the imaginary. A film of sensations, always shot skin-deep.
AMER hits cinemas in France this March.
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