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Maiburijji no ito (2011)
Koji Yamamura's latest masterpiece!
A short depressing animated film with poetic images, surrealistic atmosphere and a mesmerizingly beautiful soundtrack. It's about two parallel stories, the first one takes place in 1877 about the father of the motion picture Eadweard Muybridge and his invention (the Zoopraxiscope) which enabled him to photograph the famous running horse among his other famous photographic series, then Yamamura explores Muybridge's struggles in his personal life and marriage. The second story takes place in modern Tokyo about a mother raising up her daughter and how she grows up quickly and drifts away from her while time passes by. It's a race with time and whether we can make it go backwards or slow it or even stop it.
I was very excited to see this and it exceeded my expectation! I've seen most of Yamamura's works and he never disappoints me with his animations. The best I've seen for him are 'Kafuka: Inaka isha' and 'Mount Head', and this one is definitely up there with these two brilliant animations.
El habitante incierto (2004)
Brilliant Film!
"The Uninvited Guest" is a psychological horror about a man letting a stranger into his house to make an urgent phone call in the middle of the night. While the man of the house patiently waiting -in the kitchen- for the stranger to finish his call, the stranger suddenly disappears! but the man believes that the stranger is still in the house. Unable to differentiate between what is true and what is not, the man starts hearing strange noises and acting crazy. Did the stranger let himself out after he finished the phone call? Or is he really hiding in the house? Is the man of the house going insane? Or are these hallucinations true?
It's definitely one of the best films I've seen from the last decade. The plot is intriguing, The acting is superb and the directing is brilliant. It is a very clever film and it will deceive you in almost every scene. If you like this kind of psychological horrors/thrillers, you will love this one!