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Nocturna: Lado A - La Noche del Hombre Grande
Nocturna: Side A - The Great Old Man's Night
Argentina 2021
produced by Javier Diaz, Alejandro Narváez (executive) for Coruya Cine, La Puerta Cinematográfica
directed by Gonzalo Calzada
starring Pepe Soriano, Marilú Marini, Lautaro Delgado, Desirée Salgueiro, Nicolás Scarpino, Jenaro Nouet, Mora Della Veccia, Javier Roson, Marina Artigas
written by Gonzalo Calzada, music by Eduardo Frigerio, José María Lassaga, Federico San Millán
review by Mike Haberfelner
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At 90 years of age, Ulises (Pepe Soriano) is already a few years past
his prime - which is when his apartment building's super Daniel (Lautaro
Delgado) finds him aimlessly wandering the corridors again, he thinks
nothing of it and just takes him back to his apartment ... where he's
expected by his constantly nagging wife Dalia (Marilú Marini). Later that
night, upstairs neighbour Elena (Desirée Salgueiro) violently knocks on
Ulises apartment door, begging him to let her in - and he would, too, if
it wasn't for Dalia suggesting it might be a trap - and minutes later she
throws herself out of her window, right onto Ulises' little terrace and
dies in the process. Now Daniel sees to it that her corpse is removed
speedily, but the whole affair upsets Ulises. What's even more is that
Elena's death seems to repeat itself in a kind of endless loop, a look
Ulises gets sucked into, to a point where he makes connections from her
death to his own past - but he's an old man addled in his brain, so who
would believe him ... A very unusual piece of horror, basically
because it's told from the perspective what's best called an unreliable
witness, a man suffering from dementia (what stage of dementia is never
made clear), so for the most part it's never clear what's real and what's
just his attempt to piece random pieces of his life together to make sense
to him, what's actual horrors and what's his mind playing tricks on him,
with this question at least in large parts resolved only at the very end
of the movie. But while this might sound like terribly confusing, it's
actually what makes the film so effective and also fascinating, as this
way the narrative really manages to take the viewer down a rabbit hole to
a world with a logic (or lack thereof) of its own. And Pepe Soriano in the
lead gives a very believable and even relatable performance, while the
direction with a knack for atmosphere gives him a great canvas to act in,
making this film a very rewarding experience!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
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a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
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all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
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the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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