AMER

The directorial debut that put the exceedingly talented creative duo on the map is a mystical, unholy, yet at the same time sanctified triptych on the body and desire, circling through three defining phases of a woman’s life: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Set against the backdrop of a villa perched on a cliff above the French Riviera, we get lost in a psychedelic kaleidoscope of colors and extreme close-ups, wandering through the gray zone between reality and fantasy, as the creaking staircase, the dripping faucet, and the buzzing insects flying over a corpse compose a soundtrack straight out of nightmares. An orgasmic trip that sweeps us along a series of minor (and major) “little” deaths, and simultaneously pays homage to giallo – the “yellow” horror films that haunted Italian cinema in the 1970s, whose quintessential representatives were Dario Argento and Mario Bava. The two, along with Sigmund Freud and Luis Buñuel, grin at us sardonically from the depths of our dreams.