la Casa de Tus Suenos

Two childhood friends have grown up and evolved differently regarding how they approach their fears. The mystery has its roots in their childhood fears. Debut director from Argentina Pedro Stocki uses this unsettling premise to construct his film and adds to it an old widow who hates cats,a mentally disabled girl and her love of pigs, a man whose behavior is truly strange and a disgusting pig eating scene. The plot is nonsensical and often plays like a bad dream. The location sets are creepy and the acting is believable.Some images of madness,cannibalism and paranoia are truly memorable. There is also a backyard with seven graves,a tiny bit of graphic nudity and a decapitated head.

Desdemona lives on a remote island with her strange family: her father Mario Pontecorvo, her stepmother Dulcinea and her mentally retarded sister Pulova. The background is one of endless radio and TV broadcasts of commercials and ridiculous programmes. Desdemona tries to ward off her boredom by masturbating, provoking her father or teaching her sister how to play with herself. She even goes as far as asking her father if he would fancy raping her. The father and Dulcinea do not have a successful sex life and he would seem to be constantly haunted by his past. Mario is an expatriate Argentinean actor who claims to be a political refugee.