Event

Cannibal

Jul 25 - Jul 31

(Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain, 2013, DCP, 116 min)

Friday, Jul 25 at 08:00PM
Saturday, Jul 26 at 08:00PM
Sunday, Jul 27 at 08:00PM
Monday, Jul 28 at 01:00PM
Monday, Jul 28 at 03:00PM
Monday, Jul 28 at 08:00PM
Tuesday, Jul 29 at 08:00PM
Wednesday, Jul 30 at 08:00PM
Thursday, Jul 31 at 08:00PM

Carlos is a catch. Handsome, well-coiffed, chivalrous and the best tailor in Granada, he also has a proclivity for murdering and eating women. As Joe E. Lewis once said: "nobody's perfect."

A far cry from the recent Hollywood onslaught of glamorized serial killer tales and torture porn, Cannibal deploys artful restraint in an examination of the limits of love and forgiveness in restless times. Part noir and part horror, this troubling character study lingers all the longer by intimating rather than reveling in violence. Like its influences, Hitchcockian thrillers Vertigo and Psycho, its interest is in probing society's most deeply embedded evils, and the horror of character rather than the misogynist mayhem of Eli Roth and his ilk.

A glimmer of redemption and even love appears in the film, in the form of Nina (Olimpia Melinte, luminous in the Kim Novak dual role). Antonio de la Torre was nominate for a Goya (Spanish Oscar) for his magnetic performance as Carlos.