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[La Comunidad] 2000 - Spain Director Starring |
Giddily demented, cartoonishly horrific little gem about an apartment complex full of people who have been waiting twenty years for the lottery winner on the 5th floor to die, and are willing to kill when a new arrival gets to the money first. Shades of Polanski’s The Tenant to be sure, and it partakes of the usual visual and musical cues of the horror genre; while it may not subvert or reinvent anything, it certainly explodes conventions in delightful ways. And my juvenile fixations aside, there really is nothing like putting a Grande Dame of cinema in a film like this. Every great actress should have one. Joan and Bette had Baby Jane; Gena recently had Skeleton Key. Here’s another for that pantheon: Carmen Maura as action star? as slasher flick survivor? All that and more… Wickedly fun & highly recommended. |
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