La Antena (Esteban Sapir, 2007)
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:25 am
Trailer
Trying to put together a game plan for the upcoming Portland International Film Festival, and this synopsis comes out of nowhere and has me intrigued. After seeing that trailer and finding a few review, this jumped near the top of my list next to Silent Night, Taxidermia, and You, the Living. Has anyone around these parts seen this film? Is my enthusiam just wishful thinking or is this as great as it looks?Synopsis from PIFF wrote:A dazzling homage to comic book science fiction and silent film, La Antena owes much to cinematic masters such as Fritz Lang, Luis Buñuel and Tim Burton, but has a fresh imagination all its own. In a surreal, fairytale world where a diabolical media magnate, Mr. TV, has stolen the citizens' voices, a fractured family must come together to stop him from stealing their words as well. Mixing live action and animation with both whimsy and sophisticated allegory, Saphir's magical tale offers an intelligent meditation on the power of the media to hypnotize and oppress the masses, a warning all too pertinent to the history of Argentina.