Historias del desencanto (2005) Poster

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7/10
Dreams can be some wicked experience
andrei_pinta16 June 2006
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This film is about the magical dream-world we carry in our head and the ultimate thing that makes the difference between reality/imagery. Diego, a video-artist, and his friend Aida are discovering (though you can say they are experiencing ecstasy) a labyrinth (the house of forbidden pleasures) where they are protected by Harpy-which is in fact a harpy. I believe is somehow a criticism to the post-modernist way of thinking: very rational, though ration is over-valued.

It is indeed a bizarre film with a lot of nudity scenes and some grotesque-picturesque ones. I was fascinated and amused by the songs (very Manu Chao)- which are proposed as some pop-video-clips- and though it remembers about Lynch films, as you don't understand all the statements this movie propose, and Jodorowski magic realism, it has it's own fantasy style.
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9/10
A surreal love story involving a young artist, his teenager friend and a harpy.
pulp_post26 February 2007
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I saw this film yesterday at Fantasporto, the International Movie Festival of Porto, and I liked it a lot. The aesthetics of this movie are intense and might even shock some viewers, for this film works like visual surrealism on some philosophy of dreams. It is like a dream looking at reality and finding it difficult to accept, even though there is a plot that is not that hard to figure. Excellent idea and a great work on the visual elements, I rated it 9/10 because I think there's just one shortcoming in this movie - it's a rather long one for its purpose, for sometimes it seems to develop a plot that should not be missed in surreal terms.
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