Stars: Antonio de la Torre, María Alfonsa Rosso, Olimpia Melinte, Delphine Tempels, Joaquín Núñez, Gregory Brossard | Written by Alejandro Hernández, Rafael de la Uz | Directed by Manuel Martín Cuenca
Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse
Considering its title, it may be hard to accept that Manuel Martin Cuenca’s Cannibal was one of the most subtle and endearing features at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The first twenty minutes are a stunning Noir-esque example of raw grotesque violence in coordination with stunning visuals, subtle but powerful. These scenes, like all scenes of macabre nature in the film, are done in such tasteful ways they remove the surface layer of cheap shock and cut straight to the heart of an often sickening but sad affair. After this opening the film constantly battles with its own particular style, wanting to maintain its tame direction whilst maximising the brutality of its core themes.
Review by Scott Clark of Cinehouse
Considering its title, it may be hard to accept that Manuel Martin Cuenca’s Cannibal was one of the most subtle and endearing features at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The first twenty minutes are a stunning Noir-esque example of raw grotesque violence in coordination with stunning visuals, subtle but powerful. These scenes, like all scenes of macabre nature in the film, are done in such tasteful ways they remove the surface layer of cheap shock and cut straight to the heart of an often sickening but sad affair. After this opening the film constantly battles with its own particular style, wanting to maintain its tame direction whilst maximising the brutality of its core themes.
- 10/8/2013
- by Guest
- Nerdly
Seriously. Even people who indulge in eating the flesh of the living (or maybe even the dead if you're a kinky little ghoul) need love too. And love is exactly what they find strewn amongst the entrails in this upcoming Spanish flick!
Variety reports that Manuel Martin Cuenca is set to direct the psychological thriller Canibal, a further addition to Spain's burgeoning genre auteur canon.
Cuenca's first venture into genre, Canibal, reunites him with long-term co-scribe Alejandro Hernandez and Dp Rafael de la Uz. It freely adapts a short story by Cuba's Humberto Arenal turning on a man who kills and eats men and women, until he discovers love. "This is not a Hannibal Lecter. He knows what he does is wrong. But he just can't stop," said Cuenca. Canibal is being written "in the vein of Michael Haneke's Funny Games, where you gradually discover the character's real motives,...
Variety reports that Manuel Martin Cuenca is set to direct the psychological thriller Canibal, a further addition to Spain's burgeoning genre auteur canon.
Cuenca's first venture into genre, Canibal, reunites him with long-term co-scribe Alejandro Hernandez and Dp Rafael de la Uz. It freely adapts a short story by Cuba's Humberto Arenal turning on a man who kills and eats men and women, until he discovers love. "This is not a Hannibal Lecter. He knows what he does is wrong. But he just can't stop," said Cuenca. Canibal is being written "in the vein of Michael Haneke's Funny Games, where you gradually discover the character's real motives,...
- 8/25/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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