Horst in Translation ([email protected])
"Muta" is a co-production between Italy and Argentina from 2011, so this one had its 5th anniversary last year. The director here is multiple-award-winning filmmaker Lucrecia Martel from Argentina and she is also one of those in charge of turning the poem this is based on into a screenplay. It runs for 6.5 minutes only and there is no written or spoken dialogue in here, so you won't need subtitles whatsoever. I read people say that this was a modern film noir, but I could not agree less. To me, it had a very surreal, pretty experimental style to it. It is a fairly stylish, maybe even stylized film certainly, but sadly the story aspect comes way too short for me personally, which should explain the title of my review to you. And the way the characters were written, there's also no chance for strong performances and you cannot blame the actors at all for that. Overall, I must say the film did almost nothing for me and I did not find it memorable whatsoever. It's a thumbs-down. Don't watch.