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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I was reading through other reviews and I was surprised that people didn't get the point of this story. Previous movies of Medem I did like. But these were not so deep, so intense. I think the reason is that movie dedicated to his sister. And knowing that her paintings were used in this movie just gives even more feelings about that film. I really loved that and advising to all my friends who like other movies than Transformers. Perfect acting, perfect story-line, perfect idea behind, perfect soundtrack. Whole idea about being mother of good human - so powerful and great. In the end I was crying with tears of happiness. I was so happy that someone could make such a movie. Room in Rome was not such deep but not as simple as Lucy and Lovers. My applause to Julio Medem.

This is the most intense film I have ever seen. This film has seriously disturbed me. I just...hate everything about it. It wasn't the violence... I don't know what it was about this film but I feel traumatized. I'm not a film expert and i'm certainly not faint-hearted, but this really got to me. A huge part of it was the camera angles. Definitely the camera angles. They were what made the scenes in this film especially disturbing. After watching this I cried for hours and felt very paranoid and scared. I know this sounds really bad but it's the truth. This film really freaked me out. I am writing a review because I cannot sleep after watching this film. The last few scenes were the worst for me (4, 3, 2, 1, 0). I think I was really badly affected by this because whilst I am female, I am definitely not a feminist. Definitely not. I almost felt like I myself was in a hypnotic state after watching this. It was terrifying, without being a horror film. The genre is stated as 'drama', although for me it had the effect of a psychological thriller. It got in my head and it just..truly disturbed me.

I also saw "Lucía y el Sexo" and I liked it. A LOT! However, "Caótica Ana" left me with a bitter feeling of a good artist in a pushing manner to impress. In my opinion, this movie has a wonderful beginning, beautiful images, intricate relations, but then it continues nowhere with exaggeration in an evident effort of being modern, artistic, tempting through crushing images, shocking without content. What's the idea at the end? What's the purpose of Ana's cyclic dying? Why there are no elements to underline here character or personality? No, my vote it would be normally 5, but after Lucia y el Sexo, this movie has 1 (awful).

After the wonderful "Lovers of the Arctic Circle" and his masterpiece "Sex and Lucia" (the last almost seven years ago) my expectations on Julio Medem's follow up movie were very high and for that reason I rushed to see "CAOTIC ANA" at the Toronto Film Festival. To my disappointment, this movie is just as its title CAOTIC. A sad demonstration that some interesting or even original ideas by no means end up as a good movie.Ana is a young painter living in IBIZA with his widow father. One day she meets Justine (the great Charlotte Rampling) who offers education and economic support to perfect her artistic skills if she moves to Madrid. Ana starts "feeling" the big city and the new life (it is a sensorial feeling; she is be far from shy or at least she has no problems in being nude for art's sake or to take a bath in the ocean or for many other reasons). One of her new "feelings" is Said; a young Arab and fellow student which Ana gets involved and obsessive in love (like Lucia in "Sex"). In short time, Ana starts having strange daydreams and seizures until a professional hypnotist finds out she had lived many previous lives and all of them ending with terrible deaths at a very young age (around 22 years old). This discovery plus something said by Ana (she speaks different languages while hypnotized) causes Said to run away without any explanation. In order find out what happened with Said she accepts being part of a hypnotic treatment, trying to investigate her previous lives (and deaths). The only condition, she does not want to remember anything about the session, unless is related to Said. Many more things occur and for reasons that do not make a lot of sense she ends up in USA where she is submitted to the last "session" to find out the truth. Even when the idea looks interesting; the unrealistic chain of events, many of them too forced, harms the narrative. No character in the movie (which includes very well known European actors like Rampling or Luis Homar) has any deep or definition. They are mostly pieces put there to generate a situation or a dialog; we do not get to properly know Ana since her only motivation seems to be finding Said; and even this mystery (which drives the movie ) is easily predictable. Medem (like Bergman in his own way) has a personal concept about love and human relations and all his movies make reference to the stupid choices and things people do and consequences in everybody's lives. He never really made a lineal or realistic story; just a chain of events aligned to show his theory. This concept worked fine in previous movies; because in some way everything (albeit not always logically) got connected and made sense; which is not the case here. Many ideas seem to be thrown in the mix (not all of them really good or original) but like water and oil did not blend at all. Cohesion is missing in many moments (like the missing reels in GRINDHOUSE). The perfect example is the scene with the USA government functionary; a scene many people will probably enjoy (aside for the disgusting) but has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie. It is really sad because technically the movie is excellent; the paintings and the animations are outstanding, the locations are pure beauty but while Ana had many souls, this movie has none.