With his youthful appearance, his clean appearance and his round glasses, we can't imagine Gabriel Abrantes being 40 years old.
We also wouldn't guess that the American-Portuguese director represses so many neuroses.
Amelia's Children
, his second feature film after
Diamantino
, which just won the jury prize at the Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival, proves that the filmmaker has craftsmanship and trauma to exorcise.
He swears that he has an excellent relationship with his mother and that his film draws on Greek myths (Oedipus, Medea), Goya's paintings
(Saturn devouring one of his sons)
and American horror cinema
(Psychosis, Shining, Get Out)
and Italian (the “giallo”, especially
Suspiria
and
The Shivers of Anguish
).
But since when are we supposed to believe filmmakers?
The prologue features a mother with her two babies in a sumptuous villa in Portugal.
A woman breaks into the house and kidnaps one of the twins.
Thirty years later, the infant has become a beautiful…
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