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I'll See You in My Dreams
Portugal 2003
produced by Paula Diogo, Filipe Melo for Pato Profissional Limitada
directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas
starring Adelino Tavares, Sao José Correia, Sofia Aparício, Manuel Joao Vieira, Joao Didelet, Rui Unas, David Almeida, Cláudia Jardim, Carlos Alves, Fernando Gomes, Filipe Melo, Paula Sá Nogueira, Raul Oliveira, Paula Diogo, Patrícia Maravilha
idea by Miguel Ángel Vivaas, Filipe Melo, Ivan Vivas, screenplay by Filipe Melo, Ivan Vivas, music by José Sánchez-Sanz, Ivan Vivas, special effects by André Gaul/SFX Studio, special makeup effects by Joel Echallier
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review by Mike Haberfelner
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Lucio (Adelino Tavares) is the most proficient zombiehunter of the
region, having allegedly killed over a hundred - and he has no scruples to
even shoot his friends once they are bitten by zombies (because you see,
being a zombie is contagious). But Lucio also keeps a zombie at his home
in a cage, his wife Ana (Sofia Aparício) ... whom he once caught cheating
on him, then threw out of his house, effectively feeding her to the
zombies. One night, Lucio defends the honour of Nancy (Sao
José Correia) in a barroom brawl ... and takes her home
with him to have sex - which is too much for his zombie wife, she breaks
out of her cage, opens the door for some zombie friends, and attacks Lucio
and Nancy. The couple make a lucky escape, and make it to the local bar -
where they are denied access because they are suspected of turning into
zombies themselves ... which means they have officially become easy prey
for the zombies, who in the end get them both, despite Lucio's valiant
defense - which at one point included deliberately throwing Nancy to the
zombies (and to her doom). And eventually, Lucio, the former
zombiehunter, has become a humanhunter ... By and large, by the
early 2000's, the zombie genre as a whole has grown incredibly stale, and
it seemed that all the variations on the basic zombie-story have been told
- which of course didn't keep anyone from telling the same story over and
over again ... and then came I'll See You in My Dreams, a short
that offers a totally fresh approach to the genre that's at best vaguely
reminiscent of Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore, that offers a
good deal more unexpected, ironic plottwists in a mere 20 minutes than
most zombie feature films in all their running time, that doesn't
concentrate nearly as much on gore as it does on fine storytelling, and
that's not as much gruesome as it is weirdly macabre, but without ever
betraying its genre roots. Definitely worth a look !
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