Remains
Portugal
2002
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Everything threatens to crack and yet this devouring march happened long ago in the past. There is no moaning in the room next door, the wind has stopped blowing on the stairs, the air particles throw themselves against each other, but it’s only void against void.
As the synopsis suggests, Remains is non-narrative in the conventional sense. However there is a pure filmic form of poetic narrative here. It may seem challenging at points along the way but will ultimately win the viewer over. I won't spoil it for interested persons, but there is a rather dramatic shift in tone at one point which is just brilliant. Grungy handheld dark ambient industrial textural beauty with a morbid edge, and then ... something else!