Silence
This Spanish film follows vampire sisters from the plague-ridden 14th century into the near future, reinventing the vampire movie as a delicious blend of camp, politics and gothic aesthetics.
Spanning centuries, from the Black Death to the present day, Silence follows a vampire family whose lives intersect with histories of HIV and AIDS. It opens with two sisters rationing what remains of “clean” human blood as the plague empties the streets around them. Centuries later, one of their descendants inherits the same affliction under a different name, falling for someone on the wrong side of a divide the world still insists on: sick and healthy, human and vampire.
Eduardo Casanova (Skins, R&A 2017) once again turns to bodies that sit outside the canonical conventions of mainstream cinema, embracing monstrosity as a space where queerness, vulnerability, and desire can coexist without cancelling each other out. The staging deserves special attention: the space where the mid identity-crisis sisters retreat, draws equally on kitsch, on camp—Tom of Finland included—and on Murnau’s Romanticism. And yet this same space of controlled delirium mixes, without apology, Almodóvarian costumbrismo with the musical, horror, and science fiction, never quite settling into any one of them. Hold on to your seats: Silence has no intention of leaving anyone indifferent.
Diego Ginartes Rodríguez
Screenings
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Kino TöölöSat 19.9. at 12.00–12.5757 min, 1/5
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Kinopalatsi 1Sat 19.9. at 16.15–17.1257 min, 2/5
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Kino ReginaSun 20.9. at 17.30–18.2757 min, 3/5
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Kinopalatsi 7Wed 23.9. at 21.15–22.1257 min, 4/5
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Kinopalatsi 2Sun 27.9. at 19.15–20.1257 min, 5/5
