A small coastal town loses its most experienced diver to the seas,
Rubio, who has single-handedly many fishermen who have died in shipwrecks
so they could be given proper burials - and losing such a man only starts
rumours, many of which have to do with a legendary sea monster, and thus
Rubio slowly becomes part of the legend, a legend that also involves
ghosts and witches ... Now Lúa Vermella is nothing if
not a weird movie - but also one that requires quite a bit of patience, as
while the story told (or rather hinted at) is full of action and horror,
the movie rather loses itself in static shots that shows its actors often
doing exactly nothing, just standing there, and sometimes facing
away from the camera. Now one can percieve that as boring, but in a weird
way it's also fascinating, as the voice-overs, which seem to come only in
fragments, and the pictures very slowly form a puzzle that every audience
member is invited to put together to their own liking, and the longer the
film goes, the more irony it seems to hold, especially in the pictures of
ghosts that are clearly just actors under white sheets, and no attempt is
done to even hide it. Now this is certainly not a movie to everyone's
taste, but it's something quite different for sure.
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