Amer
(2009)
★ 6.2 IMDb · 178 votes
Year: 2009
Runtime: 90 мин
Country: Belgium, France
Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Cast: Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos, Biancamaria D'Amato, Harry Cleven, Jean-Michel Vovk, Bernard Marbaix, Thomas Bonzani, François Cognard, Delphine Brual
Plot
Ana is confronted with body and desire at three key moments of her life. As a young girl, she brings her dead grandpa back to life. In her puberty, she discovers the power of decay and sexuality. Finally, she wrestles with loss and loneliness when she returns to her parental home, now derelict.
Young Ana spends her days observing adults through keyholes in a sprawling seaside villa where her grandfather's body lies in state. She witnesses her parents in graphic, aggressive intimacy and steals a pocket watch from her grandfather's corpse, triggering a nightmare pursuit through the darkened house by a veiled servant and a silent, black-clad figure. Years later, Ana adolescente walks through a coastal village where predatory glances from local men disrupt her quiet outing. As an adult, Ana adulte returns to the abandoned, decaying villa where black-gloved hands emerge from empty bathtubs and a relentless stalker forces her into a violent, razor-driven confrontation.