The Spanish-language thriller 'Fever Dream,' directed by Claudia Llosa, occupies the space between man-made catastrophe and supernatural intervention.
, believes he’s dangerous. Superstition has overtaken Carola’s reason after her child almost died from poisoning. Half of his soul, she thinks, migrated to another body.
Llosa, a filmmaker with an affinity for the unexplainable, mines acute observations on the apprehensions of motherhood fromnovel, designing a serpentine narrative teeming with impending doom for all participants. The more Amanda and Carola, strangers quickly turned intimate friends reveling in unspoken sexual tension, become involved, the more the former’s perceptions become hazy, though we are not certain if it’s physical, psychosomatic or a spiritual invasion of her body.
As the voiceover dictates, the film’s visual choices, both in its close-up heavy cinematography and the elliptical grammar of the editing, zero in on the details hidden in every frame or expand the perspective through which the events are witnessed. Resembling Amanda’s unconscious, most scenes reverberate with a dreamlike sensorial quality and are just cryptic enough to entice our interest. Moments of unsettling surprise, tied to David’s behavior, keep a layer of fear present.
Elegantly intoxicating in its atmospheric construction, “Fever Dream” maintains its incantation to its very final twist. Even as clues inch us closer to a logical explanation for the collective malaise, the mystical undercurrent Llosa sets in place fosters our doubt.
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