Thursday 11 May 2017

El Incidente (Isaac Ezban, 2014)

The ambition of Ezban's debut feature is commendable, and one hopes the realisation all the way through to the end will become more rigorously thought out with time. Essentially, two groups of people in Mexico become stuck in a kind of Sartrean hell where for one set there is no escape from a stairwell, for another likewise none from a highway that keeps returning them to the same place. The conceptualisation of what then piles up as junk over their trapped lives is quite gripping, functioning effectively as both oblique commentary of rampant, soulless consumerism and the futility of human endeavour, the attempt of the director to make the strands tie up at the end far less so, becoming truly muddled. But there is real promise in evidence here.

6/10

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