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everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.An extraordinary feat. In making this movie the director(s) managed to turn 15 minutes of meaningless and random plot into a 90-minute movie. Done by doing almost everything in slow motion and repeating one action over and over, often without even changing the camera angle. Incredibly pretentious and containing no substance whatsoever this movie is truly devoid of any positive qualities. Avoid at all costs and save yourself some time.

Yeah, I'm really not a fan of these 'style over substance' style movies. I saw this film's follow-up, THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS, before I saw this, so I had some idea of what to expect, but still this film's almost entire lack of storyline and coherent narrative was enough to finish me off. I get what the filmmakers are doing, and I'm a huge fan of the giallo genre, but this just smacks of pretentiousness and comes across as completely pointless.AMER tells the visual story of a girl whose life is chronicled in various parts. She's subjected to a terrifying experience as a child, and then her perfect life as an adult is brought into jeopardy by the intervention of a mysterious stranger. There's no more to it than that; this is an entirely visual production, with thousands of cuts and edits designed to make the most beautiful experience ever.The images are great, and the soundtrack is hugely evocative, but the whole thing lacks so much substance that it's a real chore to sit through and it seems to go on forever and ever. This is from a guy who's been enjoying the art films of the likes of Werner Herzog and Kim Ki-duk. But AMER is a case of the 'Emperor's new clothes'; the lights are on, and they're very pretty, but nobody's home.

Amer is structured in three sections and deals with the experience of Ana, who is shown as a child, a teenager, and a young woman. The movie is hyper-stylised, and intensely saturated with colour. Amer is doing its best possible to get you inside Ana's sensorium, although it's also highly voyeuristic at the same time. This dual perspective seems to coincide with the mixture of a male and female director, and produces a view of Ana en ronde.Reviewers have made a lot about the relation of this movie to giallo, and indeed the film does contain many cine-literate references to the genre; however giallo fans may be disappointed by this steer. Whilst there are quotes of visual motifs, reuse of classic soundtracks, and a similar overall atmosphere, the movie isn't a murder mystery. Stylistically it's more likely to appeal to those who like late Argento, films such as Stendhal Syndrome, which is bonkers, and has a hysterical female lead, or those who liked the dream sequence at the start of Lizard in a Woman's Skin.I also think that the giallo focus doesn't lend one to expect what is more a film about the shock of life, this confused, vulnerable, painful, tantalising, quizzically rich shiver, over in a flash.The voyeuristic perspective of the movie is certainly arousing to those oriented in line with the mise-en-scène. After the example of Russ Meyer, Amer contains a mons-veneris-fixated shot, here dogging teenage Ana from behind, capturing the diaphanous ripples of her minidress hem in a blatant long take.The first sequence, reminded me very much of my childhood dreams, intense, baroque, magic lantern type dreams, at a time of life when darkness was dark, not eigengrau. Another type of nostalgia Amer induced was of bloodfulness, of being at an age where one still has vasomotor tone, and this exquisite feeling of warmth. There's a capturing of the sensitivity of youth (that time when coffee wasn't purple, to make a "Welt am Draht" joke). Ana's bed is shown canted at night, all in orange against a blue curtain and a black backdrop, this is the phantasmagoria of a child's nighttime. There's also a well-captured feeling of the pre-moral state of childhood, that age before seven when children merely behave themselves out of respect for the power you hold over them.One other thing the film is good at is bringing you into its world, by including imaginative yet very recognisable stimuli, such as sitting down on leather in an over-heated car, trilling the teeth of a comb against your mouth and the sound of contact on teeth (cf. the nervous rattling of a glass against teeth in Suspiria).There has been a criticism of Amer as a long short film, but, like a foot long hot dog, I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. It's just unusual for a form such as Amer to receive funding as a feature.

"Amer" is truly one of its kind.The film is superbly shot and extremely stylish with magnificent use of colour.The script certainly owes a lot to the gialli of Dario Argento,Lucio Fulci,Mario Bava and Sergio Martino.The style of the film is very hallucinogenic as the main character Ana is seen during her childhood,youth and adult life.First she is stalked by a witch like grandmother a la "Suspiria".As an adult Ana returns to a creepy coastal mansion of her sinister parents.She is stalked by taxi-driver and mysterious black-gloved killer during her stay."Amer" features tons of references and glamour of 70's giallo genre.70's score by Stelvio Cipriani,Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai is a nice touch.The camera work is often breath-taking with plenty of zooms and close-ups.The use of colour and lighting is amazing too.The atmosphere is tense and superbly erotic,almost orgasmic at times.9 giallos out of 10.