Reviews

Russians try to deal with western genre schemes and partly succeed. Definitely, this one is first russian giallo. By no means a masterpiece but better and more original than last italian giallos (almost blue of new wave, nonhosonno of good old wave). Watch it for the most bizzare and unusual dream sequence of recent times. Soundtrack contains some cues to Goblin style.

Full disappoitment after all these good reviews in imdb. This movie contains all the sins of an european thriller: it's slow, "philocophical", absolutly out of genre.But it seems that Amenabar feel himself like new Polanski. Terrible mixture of serious and entertaining cinema, although next Amenabar film, Abre Los Ojos, shows that he's not a giftless director. He can conctruct cinematographic atmosphere but it's clear that he must say stop to himself as a screenwriter.

It's difficult to find words to describe feelings that appear after watching any WKW's film. Maybe they just don't exist. WKW make movies like others breath and see dreams. He makes me believe that cinema is not technology. He's the greatest director on this planet. No marks, no rewie. Everything will sound too banal. It's like to describe a melody, almost senseless. I like cinema, the entertaining spirit of cinema, i like Indiana Jones or Armaggedon, but WKW films give you something very unique and important.

Just one more remark: it seems to me, sometimes the spirit of Nabokov's prose lives in WKW heroes' rooms.

"bello" mixture of suspense and horror, strong, erotic performance from asia argento and good-old-style camerawork by italian cinema classic-era's star g.rotunno with charming naive computer adds, it slightly lacks funny goblin's music, but chameleon master morricone gives it very stylish minimalistic refrain melody a must-see for its more hitchockian second part