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The Untamed

La región salvaje

2016

Amat Escalante

Simone Bucio, Ruth Jazmín Ramos, Jesús Meza, Edén Villavicencio ...

6.1

1,449

Drama. Fantasy. Horror Young mother Alejandra is a working housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel in a small city. Her brother Fabian works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of mysterious Veronica. Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and male chauvinism exist. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"[It] meshes domestic realism and erotic sci-fi to intriguing but incomplete effect (...) 'The Untamed' never quite exceeds the sum of its intriguingly opposed parts."
		Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"'The Untamed' is a brazen leap of faith for any filmmaker (...) Where it does go is so peculiar and provocative..."
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Surprising and disturbing (...) The small cast is very convincing but there is never quite enough material to connect their everyday struggles to the bigger underlying issues."
		Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"What Escalante has contrived is, however, eye-popping enough; but in all honesty The Untamed doesn’t seem to go anywhere special. But connoisseurs of oddness may cherish it."
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Even if 'The Untamed' comes perilously close to sabotaging itself at times, this generic tightrope walk is a ferociously individual, highly intelligent piece"
		Telegraph	"This is a fascinating and outrageous next step for Escalante, with a strong central concept and some oozily plausible special effects (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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