Ahí va el diablo
Director: Adrián García Bogliano
Writer: Adrián García Bogliano
Cast: Francisco Barreiro, Laura Caro, Alan Martinez, Michele Garcia, David Arturo Cabezud
Part of: /slash Filmfestival

Plot:
Felix (Francisco Barreiro) and Sol (Laura Caro) are on a daytrip with their children Sara (Michele Garcia) and Adolfo (Alan Martinez). But while Felix and Sol want to take a break, the kids want to explore a nearby hill. They get the permission from their parents but don’t come back. They remain lost for an entire night before returning home, somehow changed.

The film could have been really good. Unfortunately Adrián García Bogliano obviously has huge issues with women/female sexuality which taints the film. Plus, after a while it just became boring.

Bogliano starts off with a lesbian sex scene. It’s just there to be there, the girls are pretty much irrelevant after that – in fact, one of them is killed straight away.  It is a nicely shot sex scene, but it’s just pandering and it starts the connection between female sexuality and bad things that will continue throughout the movie.

Sara gets her period – and immediately afterwards get lost. While her kids are in the process of being lost, Sol is fingerfucked by Felix – and incredibly hot sex scene, really, but it’s all about her pleasure and she’s punished for it straight away, too, by losing her kids. And it just continues on like that. I have rarely seen a film that was so consequent in connecting female sexuality and evil.

That alone would have been enough to make me hate the film, beautiful, hot sex scenes or not. But after the initial tension, I quickly started to lose interest in general: in the film, in the characters, in the story. I was just bored.

Plus, the camerawork made me want to strangle the camera man. There were so many random zooms towards nothing, it made me really aggressive (or maybe it was the misogyny that made me aggressive and the zooms just made it worse). The entire film just annoyed me.

Summarizing: I don’t see its appeal.