La Antena (2007)

Director

• Esteban Sapir

Starring

• Alejandro Urdapilleta
• Valeria Bertuccelli
• Julieta Cardinali
• Rafael Ferro
• Raúl Hochman

Last On

01:15-03:20 Mon 18th Oct 2010 125m
Film4

Synopsis

The continuing strength of Argentinian cinema is demonstrated by Esteban Sapir's dazzlingly inventive fantasy. Pleasingly intricate and packed with stock heroes and villains, it's set in the "City without a Voice", whose population has been struck dumb by the TV broadcasts of the sinisterly omnipresent Alejandro Urdapilleta. Revelling in his devilry, Urdapilleta enlists medical sidekick Carlos Pineiro and rodent-like henchman Raúl Hochman to target unassuming inventor Rafael Ferro. He alone can save mystery singer Florencia Raggi and her eyeless son, and frustrate Urdapilleta's plan to steal the very words out of the citizenry's mouths. Drawing on the look and mood of such expressionist classics as Metropolis, this is a brilliant pastiche of silent screen style. Its inspired use of captions, superimposition, silhouette and studio-bound décor even surpasses that of Guy Maddin's majestic 1992 melodrama Careful. A gem.