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The Aerial (”La Antena”) is an innovative Argentinian silent film from 2007, about a city that had lost its voice, and its only savior, a boy without eyes who ends up crucified on a 'Star of David'(?). It’s a surreal allegory in a German expressionism style, a weird black & white fantasy about mind control. A unique and inaccessible fairy tale. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Mar 11, 2025 - 0 comments

Four expert thieves attempt to steal every famous artwork that is haunting their mutual psychotherapist. A detective attempts to find out who the "Collector" is. [more inside]
posted by progosk on Jun 25, 2020 - 1 comment

Bela Tarr’s seven hour epic of 1990s rural Hungary. Residents of a collapsing collective farm scheme about what to do with a large cash payment. Plans change when they discover that Irimias, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is coming back to the village. [more inside]
posted by mrcrow on Dec 2, 2019 - 2 comments

Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
posted by chappell, ambrose on Jun 9, 2019 - 1 comment

A day in the life of a family in their cramped Berlin apartment. Described by writer/director Ramon Zürcher as a "horror movie without any horror." 70 minutes. [more inside]
posted by nom de poop on Jul 1, 2016 - 0 comments