Photographs courtesy la Biennale di Venezia
Venice Lido: 72nd Film Festival –- Rodrigo Pla
- Un Monstruo de mil cabezas. Double opening
for the 72nd Venice Film Festival, in the Orizzonti section Rodrigo Pla’s fourth film, Un Monstruo de mil
cabezas (A Monster with a Thousand Heads) which is based on the novel by Laura
Santullo who also wrote the script. The
film tells the story, of a social parabola with the purpose of condemning the
inefficiency, bureaucracy and corruption of a society that cares only about
profit. In only 75 minutes, the victims of a common case of medical error
become the negative heroes of a paradoxical news story, which turns into
tragedy. Pla bends the conventions of the thriller genre to the urgency to condemn the thousand-headed monster that threatens the lives of ordinary
citizens. Given the impossibility of defending one’s rights in any other way
from the moral irresponsibility of those who wield the power of control, the
individual has no other choice but to react in a distorted, self-defeating way.
Photograph courtesy la Biennale di Venezia
Rodrigo Pla
Un Monstruo de mil cabezas.
Director Rodrigo Pla, in 2007 won international
recognition as one of the greatest promises of the New Mexican Cinema with his
debut feature-length film, La zona.
“To paraphrase the novel it is based on, it is “a
monster with a thousand heads an no brain’ that the average Joe has to battle
against.” Pla told Ciak magazine.
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Rodrigo Pla
- Un Monstruo de mil cabezas
Contessanally - desperate - 6/10
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