Muta

In Spanish "muta" means mutate, which is an appropriate title for this wonderful short from director Lucrecia Martel. Made as part of Miu Miu's Women's Tales series, in which women directors are given carte blanche to direct a short as long as it features actors in Miu Miu clothing, Muta is one of the more successful entries into this anthology.

Onboard an abandoned luxury cruise 8 women crawl out of a very narrow cabin, their movements creepy and insect like. Martel never shows us their faces but it doesn't matter. They communicate with flutters of their over-exaggerated eyelashes, which we only see in profile, and in fluttering of their fingers and hands. The women are strange and otherwordly and this is only enhanced by the superb audio which works to make the women as sinister as possible.

Short, interesting and enjoyable, Muta is worth the six minutes it takes up of your time.