The Others (2001)
(Los otros)
Country: SP/US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Eric Sykes
Synopsis:
On the island of Jersey just after the Second World War a mother lives in an enormous house with her two photosensitive children, despairing of ever seeing her soldier husband again. One day three servants arrive at the house, apparently responding to her advertisement following the 'disappearance' of her former staff.
Review:
What begins as a Turn of the Screw-style psychological thriller, with the mother enjoying a somewhat ambivalent role as protectress of the children, turns out to be a bird of an altogether more chilling feather. Clues, such as the perpetual fog and the above-mentioned disappearance, are dropped early on, and it is the way the film elucidates itself finally - rather than simply changing direction like so many Hollywood equivalents - that impresses. The production sustains the atmosphere of the uncanny so that the few shocks are truly effective, and the cast is perfect, the children not too angelic and Kidman further proving herself as an actress of some distinction.
(Los otros)
Country: SP/US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Eric Sykes
Synopsis:
On the island of Jersey just after the Second World War a mother lives in an enormous house with her two photosensitive children, despairing of ever seeing her soldier husband again. One day three servants arrive at the house, apparently responding to her advertisement following the 'disappearance' of her former staff.
Review:
What begins as a Turn of the Screw-style psychological thriller, with the mother enjoying a somewhat ambivalent role as protectress of the children, turns out to be a bird of an altogether more chilling feather. Clues, such as the perpetual fog and the above-mentioned disappearance, are dropped early on, and it is the way the film elucidates itself finally - rather than simply changing direction like so many Hollywood equivalents - that impresses. The production sustains the atmosphere of the uncanny so that the few shocks are truly effective, and the cast is perfect, the children not too angelic and Kidman further proving herself as an actress of some distinction.
(Los otros)
Country: SP/US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Eric Sykes
Synopsis:
On the island of Jersey just after the Second World War a mother lives in an enormous house with her two photosensitive children, despairing of ever seeing her soldier husband again. One day three servants arrive at the house, apparently responding to her advertisement following the 'disappearance' of her former staff.
Review:
What begins as a Turn of the Screw-style psychological thriller, with the mother enjoying a somewhat ambivalent role as protectress of the children, turns out to be a bird of an altogether more chilling feather. Clues, such as the perpetual fog and the above-mentioned disappearance, are dropped early on, and it is the way the film elucidates itself finally - rather than simply changing direction like so many Hollywood equivalents - that impresses. The production sustains the atmosphere of the uncanny so that the few shocks are truly effective, and the cast is perfect, the children not too angelic and Kidman further proving herself as an actress of some distinction.