"An eroticized homage to 1970s Italian giallo horror movies reimagined as an avant-garde trance film. An outrageous and intoxicating cinematic head-trip."- New Directors/New Films

Director: Helene Cattet, Bruno Forzani Year: 2009 Running time: 90 mins France/Belgium Producers: Eve Commenge, Francois Cognard Photography: Manu Dacosse Editor: Bernard Beets Production designer: Alina Santos Costume designer: Jackye Fauconnier Music: Bruno Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani, Ennio Morricone

In French with English subtitles :CinemaScope

Festivals: Rotterdam, SXSW, New Directors/New Film 2010

Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani are a Belgian couple who have made five short films together. Amer is their dazzling debut feature, a film divided into three parts: the childhood, adolescence and womanhood of a character named Ana. The film is a near dialogue-free ode amore to Italian orrore maestros, in which the technicolours of Mario Bava, the sensual camerawork of Dario Argento and the pulse-pounding scores of Ennio Morricone provide a lush bed for the grisly deaths executed by a black-gloved killer. At times the films bold experimental nature recalls the works of Stan Brakhage. Clinical compositions of rigorous artifice and symbolism become Freudian Rorschach tests revealing characters repressed sexual desire and hidden malevolence. Its creation has defined a new genre: the Slasher-Art-Porn flick. AT

Session Times

Sat 24 Jul | 8:30pm | Rialto Newmarket |

Sun 25 Jul | 6:00pm | Rialto Newmarket |