{"id":9356,"date":"2014-10-12T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2018-05-07T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:57:07","slug":"amer-2009-cattet-forzani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9356","title":{"rendered":"Amer (2009, Cattet & Forzani)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watched this belatedly after loving their follow-up The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears<\/a><\/em>. Some critics who’d seen Amer<\/em> said that Strange Colour<\/em> was the same ol’ thing, but I doubted that would be a problem since Strange Colour<\/em> was supremely stylish and enjoyable, and sure enough, so was this.<\/p>\n

I’m grasping the story even less here, or at least not grasping how they’re supposed to work together, except visually\/stylistically. It’s in three parts, each following Ana at different ages. Firstly, young Ana is fighting to the death with the family maid Graziella over Ana’s dead-ish grandfather’s locket.<\/p>\n

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Then sullen teenaged Ana follows her mom into town, having sensual visions of escape.<\/p>\n

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Finally, adult Ana returns to the old family home, and is maybe murdered by a black-gloved stalker.<\/p>\n

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The directors are sound-effects fetishists (and use 1970’s movie scores) so the whole thing sounds as great as it looks. No familiar actors: Ana’s father Jean-Michel Vovk is in all the Cattet\/Forzani movies and cab driver (murderer?) Harry Cleven was in a couple of Godard films. Can’t tell if the movies are all empty style or rich and deep, but they’re a total blast to watch and mysterious enough that, if having people over to watch weird movies was a realistic option, these would be the top contenders.<\/p>\n

EDIT 2018:<\/strong> Had someone over to watch Amer<\/em>, which is still awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watched this belatedly after loving their follow-up The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears. Some critics who’d seen Amer said that Strange Colour was the same ol’ thing, but I doubted that would be a problem since Strange Colour was supremely stylish and enjoyable, and sure enough, so was this. I’m grasping the story even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1828,767],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-cattet-forzani","tag-cinematography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}