Amer
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The film is divided into three separate sections, all of which focus on three key moments in the life of Ana, played by Cassandra Foret as a child, Charlotte Eugene Guibeaud as a teenager, and finally Marie Bos as an adult. Each of the three segments have their own unique style, yet they seamless fit together to encompass the overall narrative. Each key moment in Ana's life is a lead up to the films climactic finale.
The first segment revolves around Ana, and the defining moment of her childhood. In essence it is a frightening recollection from the point of view of a child. Ana's caretaker is a mysterious old lady who practices black magic, which begins to put terrifying ideas into the child's head. The entire sequence remains genuinely unnerving whilst also maintaining a surreal dreamlike quality we have come to expect from Italian Giallo films.
The second sequence feels more like a transition between two main set pieces, yet it is still an important event in Anas life. The important thing to note here is that this particular segment is different to the others that it is at this point the viewer realises just how much of a visual treat this film is. After the intense childhood segment, the film begins to wind down and show off the fact that it doesn't need dialogue to provide the viewer with a unique experience. It's here that the mood is set, and begins a build up towards the climax.
Amer is a loose, three-part narrative about Ana (played, respectively, by actresses Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène-Guibeaud and Marie Bos), who was physically and emotionally abused as a child. The film concludes when she returns to the site of her primary trauma, her childhood home, to exact her revenge. With very little dialogue, time is contracted and expanded. The world through Ana’s eyes is conveyed to us in excessive detail that creates an inescapable claustrophobia.
Amer centers on Ana and is divided into three sections; childhood, adolescents and adulthood. Ana’s childhood brings nightmare imagery from the overactive imagination of a child who has seen her dead grandfather laid out in his bed and her parents having sex. Adolescents brings with it Ana’s sexual awakening much to her mother’s chagrin. Adulthood brings Ana back to the abandoned home of her childhood where old neurosis hide in every nook and cranny.
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Ana enfant: (Played by Cassandra Forêt)
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Ana adolescente: (Played by Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud)
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Notes:
*Dialogue is sparse, but when someone speaks [French], the English subs are hardcoded.
*You can see the heavy influence of the Italian Giallo genre in this movie. It's more psycho-sexual than in-your-face-horror; along with some pretty cool avante-garde cinematography.
*The first segment, which runs about 27 mins, is [imo] the best as far as evoking any feelings for Ana when she is a child. In the second part [which clocks in under 20 mins], it's hard to tell the real age of Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud as the adolescent Ana. She could be anywhere from 15 years old to a young looking lady in her 20's..
*There are sensual elements to all three parts of the film, but the more focused is the second segment where there's an obvious competition between Ana and her ice cold mother for the attention of anyone watching them.
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