Alex (Elías González) finds his car about to be towed away by eager but slightly clumsy city official Berta (Nerea Barros) for a parking offense. And however hard he tries, he can't convince her that he just didn't see the no-parking sign or persuade her to just let it slide. But at least she's nice enough to offer him a ride to the impounding lot. In the car though she attacks him which culminates in her sticking a syringe into his neck and ... when Alex comes to he finds himself handcuffed to a hospital bed, with Berta leaning over him menacingly. She claims she wants revenge on him, but it takes him some time to remember who she even is, and even longer to remember what he has actually done to her. But while he has pretty much forgotten about it, it had her traumatized ever since - and now she just wants to make him feel her trauma, if necessary by spilling blood ...

Berta is a pretty mean film - but one that has its feminist heart in just the right place, and a film that has one thinking beyond what's happening on screen. That said, Berta's by no means a blunt message movie, direction-wise it's steeped in the tradition of horror and psycho thriller, with plenty of blood and disturbing images, but interestingly also its fair share of humour, that actually helps the film's grim theme rather than undermining it, with an actual punchline towards the end that's pretty hilarious. And the two leads really manage to carry the film and play well off one another, only helping to make this a pretty cool and memorable movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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