To Kill the Beast
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
Sombre, measured, measured mystery / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Emilia arrives at her Aunt Ines’ hostel at the Argentina-Brazil border looking for her long lost brother. In this luxuriant jungle, a dangerous beast believed to be the spirit of an evil man taking the form of different animals seems to be roaming around. On a journey to sexual awakening, Emilia will have to confront her past in order to kill the beast.
Our read · To Kill the Beast (2021) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal mystery · fantasy · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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