In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.
Direction
Spiner's dream-logic visual language
Production
Cramped, oppressive Argentina-as-dystopia aesthetic
Acting
Poncela's hollowed-out everyman performance
Director
Fernando Spiner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Argentina's post-dictatorship reckoning, the film's memory-erasure horror mirrors real state atrocities buried by amnesty laws.
Gastón Pauls was better known as a teen heartthrob; this was his deliberate career sabotage into serious cinema.
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