An unacquainted man and woman become the last living people on Earth when an unspecified catastrophe wipes out humanity, and causes an apartment building to collapse around them. With no means of escape from their dark, cramped prison, and with limited resources for survival, an unusual nexus is forged between them. They spend uncounted hours waxing lyrical about life and love, and of starting a world anew. The eventual birth of their offspring quashes these Panglossian delusions, however, when the infant is revealed to be devoid of reproductive organs. It latterly dies from malnourishment, as do its parents.
ATRAPADOS is a unique and incisively realized film, and an impressive debut for its director. That it failed to bring him wide recognition or a fruitful career is unfortunate...it's a philosophical, spiritual, and stingingly plaintive brown study, characterizing two unexceptional people who find an unlikely mutuality in the face of impending doom, both defiantly disconfirming the fate which, deep down, they know awaits them.
An unduly sidestepped and utterly singular picture which is strongly played by the leads, and demanding of a more prominent placement in the colloquy of experimental cinema.
7/10.
ATRAPADOS is a unique and incisively realized film, and an impressive debut for its director. That it failed to bring him wide recognition or a fruitful career is unfortunate...it's a philosophical, spiritual, and stingingly plaintive brown study, characterizing two unexceptional people who find an unlikely mutuality in the face of impending doom, both defiantly disconfirming the fate which, deep down, they know awaits them.
An unduly sidestepped and utterly singular picture which is strongly played by the leads, and demanding of a more prominent placement in the colloquy of experimental cinema.
7/10.