Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.
Acting
Fedja van Huêt plays both twins with unsettling precision
Direction
Koolhoven builds dread through what you can't see
Cinematography
The viewfinder as prison—brilliant visual metaphor
Director
Martin Koolhoven
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Koolhoven later directed Brimstone and Nick & Simon: The Death of a Friendship—this was his moody debut.
The title's stylized 'A' references both the estate and the psychiatric condition, suggesting the house itself is the illness.
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