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La Casa Muda

The Silent House

Uruguay 2010
produced by
Gustavo Rojo for Tokio Films
directed by Gustavo Hernández
starring Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi, Gustavo Alonso, María Salazar
story by Gustavo Hernández, Gustavo Rojo, screenplay by Oscar Estévez, music by Hernán González

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Laura (Florencia Colucci) and her father (Gustavo Alonso) help their friend Nestor (Abel Tripaldi) to clean out his house. While Nestor is gone for some supplies, Laura and her dad do a bit of scouting around - which is when Laura hears all sorts of spooky noises. Her dad claims he doesn't hear anything ... but then he ends up dead. Laura wants to leave the place at any cost, but she has to realize she's locked in - and what's worse, the killer is locked in with her. Laura tries to run, but one room seems to be more creepy than the next, and it all seems to have to do with a child - and with Laura, as she finds a whole wall plastered with photos of herself.

Finally, Laura finds the housekey and runs right into the arms of Nestor, who has just come back with supplies, blissfully unaware of what has happened. He thinks Laura is just hysteric and forces her to accompany him into the house - bad mistake, because once in the house, Laura stabs him to death.

Turns out that Laura was the baddie of the piece all along, that she actually had killed her own father, too. Thing is, she and Nestor once were lovers, but then she got pregnant and he forced her to abort, and her father backed him up - and was running a sex ring with Nestor behind her back.

With Nestor and daddy gone, Laura falls a world of illusions where she and her (never born) daughter go to visit granny ...

 

Technically, this film is almost brilliantly made: It's shot in very few shots (the filmmakers claim the body of the movie is shot in one single continuous shot, but I have my doubts - not that it really matters), but the pictures are carefully set up throughout, the whole thing is perfectly timed to create tension, suspense and atmosphere in all the right spots, and totally without the help of rapid fire editing, dynamics, hectic and the like are created when they're supposed to. Plus, Florencia Colucci really manages to carry the film, actingwise.

However, La Casa Muda is also a far-from-perfect film, mainly because its insistence on doing everything in one single shot makes no sense, narratively. Basically, if Laura was really the killer of her father, than next to nothing of what happened in the movie was what actually happened, it was all in her mind ... and yet, shooting in one single shot suggests special immediacy and realism (while editing suggests a bendable truth) - which in the end leaves you totally unsure about what you have actually seen. And thus, with the revelation that Laura was actually the killer, the movie loses you, and much of what was previously achieved goes up in smoke.

Too bad, a technical achievement like this would have deserved better ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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