Piscina infinita

Vista la versión dura NC-17. Infinity Pool es la mejor película de Cronenberg hasta ahora (es decir, de C. junior), esta vez menos deprimente, pero más divertida y con un humor morboso. Si es posible, no quiera saber demasiado sobre la trama antes de verla, aunque los avances ya se han ocupado bastante de eso. Hay magia en la sorpresa. Alexander Skarsgård lo hace muchas veces, Mia Goth vuelve a ser un elemento completo y algunas escenas audiovisuales en esta película son casi inolvidables (no sé qué tan reducida es la versión de eRk). Se la recomiendo a todos los fanáticos de películas de terror de ciencia ficción. Es solo enero, pero para mí, es una de las mejores películas de género de este año. [Festival de Cine de Sundance 2023] (26.01.2023)

"Fui a una colonoscopia el mes pasado y fue como mirar una pintura de Jackson Polyp." Qué buen comienzo... y qué resultado tan desabrido. El adentramiento progresivo de la pareja central en el infierno a través de un simbolismo siniestro, una sexualidad tentadora y un trágico accidente. Ensoñador lynchiano, físico cronenbergiano, punk kubrickiano. Los destellos de La naranja mecánica son lo último con lo que se trabaja de forma interesante en la segunda mitad. El enorme potencial de los motivos primarios permanecerá sin desarrollar: se hubiera podido trabajar mucho más con la psicología de la relación de la pareja central (ella no sabe qué ha cambiado y poco a poco llega a saberlo, horrorizada), y al mismo tiempo revelar el extraño mundo de la isla con sus reglas aterradoras y entretejerlo metafóricamente con el motivo de la búsqueda de inspiración de un escritor agotado. En cambio, el joven Cronenberg y su protagonista quedaron atrapados en la vanidad gratuitamente hostil de un grupo de personas aisladas de la empatía y la identidad propia. (04.03.2023)

A writer with a creative block trapped in an urn paradise. The sci-fi premise only lightly skates over moral and ethical questions, as Surreal Cronenberg Jr., in the spirit of magical realism and inhaling a wandering root, leaves the stand-in with breasts at least two sizes larger than Mia Goth. By the way, her eyebrows had an atmosphere that I prefer over the content in such films. Just hints... Alexander Skarsgård is beginning to show some Pullman-like traits, but that doesn’t mean he’s ventured onto the Lost Highway here. (05.04.2023)

What happens in La Tolqa stays in La Tolqa. The best Brandon Cronenberg yet, who has only now fully matured as a director and is following in his daddy's footsteps. Cronenberg's signature is very much in evidence, and those who don't like his films probably won't change their minds now either. Infinity Pool, however, is more of a psychedelic thriller than a horror film that relies on the unsettling and uncomfortable. Twisted more by theme and idea than explicit violence – there's less of that here for my taste than I expected based on overseas reviews, but again, other elements balance it out. The central couple are enjoying an all-inclusive stay at a fictional resort, but the idyllic holiday is altered by a sudden fatal accident that changes the lives of everyone involved. Rough local rules with a perverse local subculture, psychological hedonism and original cloning are all interesting elements. The direction and execution are on a high level. Alexander Skarsgard is great and Mia Goth delivers another affected and insane performance – Pearl 2 Evolved. (that girl really amuses and turns me on at the same time), and there is one psychotropic and hallucinogenic sex orgy scene that is a delight and I can understand the NC-17 rating, albeit more for the nudity than the violence. The gore is practically non-existent (apart from one nicely smashed head there's almost nothing), but the unsettling atmosphere where something unpleasant hangs in the air works well, and script-wise it's quite unpredictable and quite properly wild. I definitely had more fun than I'd hoped. The film won't please everyone due to its controversial approach and lack of any significant horror scenes, but that's typical of Cronenberg. It's got depth, great actors, impressive ideas, brilliant direction and perverted nudity, pluse the make-up effects are perfectly creepy, too bad they didn't use them better and more often... All that was really missing was proper gore to complete satisfaction. (14.02.2023)

Brandon Cronenberg lives up to his surname and serves up another divisive, weird, WTF audio-visual renaissance that feels like a twin of Possessor. It's just as visually colorful, just as weird, and it evokes the same mixed feelings, but I don't know if I actually liked it or not. Infinity Pool features a really large number of symbols, parables and clues that make you feel like you need to read between the lines and think about a bit, but at the same time, it will be hard to digest for a large group of viewers. Unfortunately, not because (as we had hoped) it offers something extreme, raw or visually extraordinary, on the contrary the director keeps very much to the surface and doesn't offer us anything substantial, but unfortunately it is hard to digest because it is simply a form of "elevated" horror that can be interpreted in many, many ways. Strange? Definitely. Good? Hard to say. Either way, keep your eyes open and pay attention, because this is probably a film that needs to be seen multiple times to catch every detail and theory that Cronenberg throws at us. (17.02.2023)