哥伦比亚新浪潮
导演Carlos Mayolo
的长片处女作，一部哥特风格的幻
想片，获葡萄牙幻想
电影节最佳女主角和最佳影片提名
。是导演向Roma
n Polanski的《Ros
emary&#39
;s Baby》致敬的作
品。 "F
lesh of y
our flesh&
amp;quot; i
s a political a
llegory t
rhough a lo
ve story, f
ramed into
the magica
l colombian un
iverse. I
n 1955, in th
e middle of a
military dicta
torship, a tee
nage girl se
duces he
r brother
and due to
their
incestous re
lationsh
ip the lo
vers are posses
sed by th
e ghost
s of their anc
estors. The two
youngst
ers becom
e vampirica
l and cri
minal cre
atures
like those c
reated by t
he colombi
an "vi
olencia&quo
t;, mingl
ing with t
he mytholog
ical be
ings of
the coun
tryside li
ke &q
uot;drafts&a
mp;quot; and
other g
host sowing
fear int
o the he
art of
men. Direc
ted by Car
los Mayolo. Ce
nters on a wea
lthy family
fighting
over the la
st testament of
a just
-deceased m
atriarch.
From there
, the fam
ily memb
ers are show
n to ha
ve an incestuou
s relationsh
ip, and
eventual
ly vampires
come into
the pictu
re, as wel
l as unbridle
d slaughter. T
ropical
Gothic Baroque
. An ex
tremely
interesting fi
lm about La
Violenc
ia in Colomb
ia which c
aptures th
e strange so
cial and
political het
erogenei
ty of thi
s dark set
of events.
Mayolo develo
ped his
own aesthetic
- partly i
n collaborat
ion with
filmmaker
Luis Ospin
a and the lat
e Andrés
Caicedo - &amp
;#39;el
gótico tropi
cal&amp
;#39; in orde
r to convey thi
s strangeness.
The film combi
nes local Col
ombian myths -
caspi,
la madre
monte,
el hojarasq
uin del m
onte - w
ith themes o
f vampir
ism and
incest to conv
ey the pla
ce of La Vi
olencia with
in a repetit
ive and
cyclical hi
story cha
racterised by
interpa
rtisan confl
icts that be
nefit the
empowerme
nt of the
Colombian aris
tocracy.　　哥伦比亚
新浪潮导演Carlos Ma
yolo的长片
处女作，一部哥特风格的幻想片，
获葡萄牙幻想电影节最佳女主
角和最佳影片提名。是
导演向Roman Pol
anski的《Ro
semary&
amp;amp;#
39