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Las Meninas

"Look where you dare not, and find yourself staring back."

2008-01-25
5.1
uk 99m
Drama
This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.

Director

Ihor Podolchak

Producer

Ihor Podolchak

Co-Director

Dean Karr

Producer

Ihor Dyurych

Sound Director

Myroslav Kuvaldin

Producer

Liliya Mlynarych

villa mannequin insanity cello family relationships twins psychedelic loop neo-noir piano psychodrama paranoiac mother daughter relationship eczema mirror neo-surrealism non linear ukraine house of mirrors independent film

Status

Released

Budget

$850,000

Countries

  • Ukraine

Companies

  • MF Films (UA)

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