Félix Viscarret adapts Juan José Millás with Paco León, Leonor Watling, Àlex Brendemühl and Juan Diego Botto in a film awarded at Seminci.
Here is a film as unusual as it is elusive, a kind of horror story, a metaphor of alienation, a moral fable… inside a closet. Félix Viscarret adapts the novel ‘From the Shadow’ by Juan José Millás and composes a very uncomfortable story about solitary confinement and its monsters, about loneliness as an endemic evil through a character (played by a Paco León as disturbing as he is minimalist in his gesture) who becomes a ghost who spies from his hiding place on the secrets of a marriage and creates imaginary ties with his wife (Leonor Watling).
Viscarret takes his protagonist’s distorted point of view of reality to its ultimate consequences and uses the planning of each sequence to show his perspective, mixing a sick everyday life with the dreamlike element, reformulating the concept of run away in an imaginative and perverse way to talk about hidden desire, fears and frustrations, the longing for recognition and the need to feel.
For lovers of movies that generate strangeness, bother and raise questions
DATA SHEET
Address: Felix Viscarret Distribution: Paco León, Leonor Watling, Àlex Brendemühl, Juan Diego Botto, María Romanillos Country: Spain Year: 2022 Release date: 04–11-2022 Gender: Drama Script: David Munoz, Felix Viscarret Novel: Juan Jose Millas Duration: 107 minutes
Synopsis: Damián has just been fired after 20 years working in the same company. His reaction, furious and somewhat violent, leads him to run away and hide in the first place he finds when leaving the office: a closet loaded in a van. The wardrobe, with Damián inside, is delivered to the home of Lucía and Fede, a couple Damián’s age who lives with his teenage daughter, María. That same night, an unexpected impulse leads Damián to stay with the family to become a mysterious presence that he will observe and move from the shadows.
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