SYNOPSICS
La región salvaje (2016) is a Spanish,English movie. Amat Escalante has directed this movie. Ruth Ramos,Simone Bucio,Jesús Meza,Eden Villavicencio are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. La región salvaje (2016) is considered one of the best Drama,Horror,Mystery,Sci-Fi,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Alejandra is a young mother who works her in-laws' candy factory and raises her two children, along with her husband Ángel, in a small city in Mexico. She has an unhappy marriage. Her brother Fabián is a nurse at a local hospital and lover of her husband. Their provincial lives are altered with the arrival of Veronica who becomes Fabian's girlfriend. Sex and love are fragile in certain regions where family values exist, and where hypocrisy, homophobia, and machismo are strong. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby forest, in an isolated hut, there is something mysterious that is the answer to all their problems. It is something which they can not resist its power.
La región salvaje (2016) Reviews
One of the most disturbing, yet beautiful, films I have seen in a long time
Okay, let's get one thing out of the way; the majority of this film is a character study/family drama. There are long stretches of the movie where the characters just go about their daily lives, and although it does not detract from the overall package, it does offer a better label of the films genre. Yes, there are sci-fi elements, but at its core, it is a movie about a woman's crumbling marriage, and how she deals with it. With that said, this movie offers some excellent acting, some truly amazing and breath taking cinematography, and a great (yet subdued) soundtrack. The director also did an amazing job in framing each shot, and the movie just looks gorgeous. Hollywood could certainly learn a thing or two from these types of directors that focus on artistry over budget. The star of the show, the Thing in the shed, was one of the freakiest things I have ever seen in any movie. It moved with purpose and grace, and the face had such a deadly intelligence as to suggest that it was smarter that the beings it was indulging. Every time it showed up on screen, I got goose bumps. Like watching the creature from The Thing mate with an Octopus. Weird, fantastical, and completely convincing. How something so genuinely creepy was created on such a small budget, I will never understand. Overall, this is an art house drama about a woman's quiet struggles with a deteriorating marriage. Yes, there are some horrific scenes, some violence, some sex and of course, the Sci-Fi elements. But in the end, its a tale of how one woman sought solace from a failed marriage from something that was beyond her control. Highly recommended, but only if you are patient and have an appreciation of film as an art form.
Entrancing, Totally Unique
Alejandra is ensnared in a marriage without emotion or passion. Her macho husband Angel is in a hidden relationship with her brother Fabian. It takes a mysterious and confident loner, Veronica, to break Alejandra out of her funk. A cabin in the woods, imbued with an alien presence, provides a source of pleasure to both women. It is also a force of destruction. The same source that sets them free from a chauvinistic and homophobic society, may also be their undoing. Nothing will be the same for them. They struggle to find a balance. The Untamed combines science fiction with horror and eroticism in a thrilling way. It is entrancing, totally unique and extremely unpredictable. It explores our primal desires as well as our tendency towards self-destruction. The vision of the film is liberating. It not only breaks our notions of film genres and chauvinistic society, it toys with our notions of sound. As with films by Nicolas Winding Refn, the acoustics heighten the tension. There is so much depth and pleasure here. Escalante won the Best Director prize at Cannes for 2013 film Heli. This is a better film. Seen at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Unnecessary sexual sci-fi endeavor
Palm Spring International Film Festival. Acclaimed Barcelona director Amat Escalante (Heli - 2013 Cannes Best Director) leaps off into the sexual sci-fi world presenting a Mexican family (Alejandra - Ruth Ramos and Angel - Jesus Meza) who are embroiled in a boring and abusive relationship, while he secretly has a sexual relationship with her brother Fabián (Eden Villavicencio). If that's not enough, sexually deprived outsider Veronica ( Simone Bucio) is having the best sex of her deprived life and she's ready to share. If Escalante is banking on his 2013 Cannes win to get an audience, followers may have a rude awaking. While the story (written by Escalante and Gibrán Portela) between husband, wife and brother are solid, and the locations and the cinematography by Manuel Alberto Claro work, introducing Veronica, the alien (who's arrival really isn't established) and the alien back wood's keepers is just silly. "The Untamed" is little more than a sexual voyeur's (Escalante's) paradise of the far-fetched semi-sci-fi kind. #psiff2017
Challenging and worth watching more than once
'The Untamed' boasts an eye-opening beginning with Verónica, a rather listless young woman, receiving some hot tentacle action in an isolated cabin in the woods. It then quickly turns to everyday mundanity as we meet Alejandra, a young mother whose brutish (but vegetarian) husband, Ángel, has casual sex with her brother Fabián. But Fabián's meeting with Verónica kicks off a series of events that test the family's bonds and result in further visits to that cabin in the woods... I do not recall ever having seen a Latin American sci-fi film before, but even if there is a whole genre of such films of which I have never heard, this offering must surely stretch the boundaries - not just in content but in tone also. Special effects are kept to an absolute minimum (and when we finally see the CGI creature as it - um - services Alejandra I had to stifle a laugh) because this is a film about people trapped in their unsatisfying lives. They live in grotty houses with messy beds and chipped paintwork, wear cheap clothes and rarely smile. It's no wonder the cabin in the woods is so enticing. So despite its sci-fi elements this is a quiet film, rooted firmly on the ground - in many ways more of a kitchen-sink drama than anything else. It is intriguing enough that I would quite like to see it again.
Science fiction allegory.
As a Science Fiction film it fails because it doesn't convey to science fiction unwritten rules, where we usually have a scientific explanation of what is going on, like in «2001 A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick or "Interstellar" by Christopher Nolan. The "alien" similar creature in The Untamed can give a lot of pleasure but can also give a lot of pain and even murder people and it is supposed that it came from an asteroid that no one has heard of or has detected but that on its impact falling, made a small crater which now is full with animals in the act of fornication. There is absolutely no explanation of its origin. We just have to assume that it fell somewhere in earth, in this case in Mexico but surely could've been anywhere in the earth. This "alien" creature as said is some kind of a sex machine that gives pleasure both to men and women and there is a lot of sex in this film, with or without the creature, but without feelings, there is no love, it's a mechanical thing, and likewise the personages are also quite mechanical in their behavior, they lack will and personality, it's like they are imprisoned by the environment and the circumstances. Even when they speak it seems they are speaking to a wall and not to another human being, their voices are low and flat and completely without any sign of will. If Amat Escalante wanted to give us the impression that their characters are some kind of robots driven by the current of things and time, he has succeeded. As a film with a social message it falls short too because the film is so unrealistic that we cannot connect it with a social reality, so I regard this more like a science fiction allegory.