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Strange, Surreal, Sexy: Amer at the New Directors / New Films Festival

[Part II of Paste’s coverage of the New Directors / New Films festival] Perhaps all anyone needs to know about Amer before they see it is a glimpse at the movie’s poster: a creepy hand reaches forward, out of a vertiginous spiral, grasping at the figure of a nude woman. This evocative fantasia doesn’t reveal much, but grabs attention. Sit down to watch the flick, by French-born, Belgium-based filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, and you’re hooked from the opening title sequence. There’s an intriguing bit of acoustic guitar, suddenly overwhelmed by the menacing gurgle of some weird 1960s Italian...  read more

Sitges Film Festival 2009: Amer, The Loved Ones, Doghouse, More

What you do in Sitges, Spain, during the annual Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic, is pretty much this: Wake up at 7:30 a.m. Eat breakfast. Hit first movie at 8:30 a.m. Continue throughout day. Break for late-afternoon nap, snack, interview or hang in the lobby bar of the Hotel Melia. Go see more movies. Go to dinner. Go drinking. See a movie (maybe). Go to the late-night party that usually begins after 1 a.m. Get back to room about 4:30 a.m. (with luck). Wake up at 7:30 a.m. And repeat. For seven or eight days straight. If your eyeballs haven’t...  read more