Saturday 10th September 2011
Director: Sebastian Lelio
Year: 2011
Stars: Luis Dubo, Sergio Hernandez, Viviana Herrera
So, this was the third of our five Toronto International Film Festival movies, and our Saturday night movie. And it wasn't at all what I was expecting - it was much, much worse.
The film was billed as being about a man who survives the Chilean earthquake and ends up spending the year surviving with a tiger. Well, there was definitely a year - possibly ten. I could feel the minutes of my life ticking away as I watched this, wishing I was anywhere but here. I was on holiday, after all - that's meant to be fun! To say there was a tiger, however (let alone one that dominates the movie) is something of a stretch. There are perhaps two scenes with a tiger in, neither of which lasted more than a minute at best.
I can only apologise to the friend that we hadn't seen for ages, who came along to see this with us. To her, I'm so terribly sorry. This has to be the slowest, dullest movie I've seen in some time - peppered with the occasional shocking image that made you sit up and think "Oh! I've almost fallen asleep in a cinema! Better pay the movie some attention now then! Yawn..."
Rating: 0 out of 5
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