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Alex (Jonathan Tufvesson), sound man of a small crew of documentary
filmmakers, one day during a shoot captures some unusual sounds, and when
at the studio he cleans up the sounds he finds them to be voices. Doing
some research he finds they might be the voices of the dead. Luckily,
professor Hasegawa (Hal Yamanouchi), an expert on the subject, lives
nearby, but he's at first very reluctant to help him, but eventually
marvels at Alex's findings. But before he can properly help him, he's run
over by a car. Eventually, Alex crosses paths with Amanda (Rocío Muñoz),
his best friend from when they both grew up at an orphanage, who
desparately wants to talk to a mutual friend of theirs who back at the
orphanage one day just disappeared. But there's also Alex's girlfriend
Laura (Margaux Billard), presenter of the documentary Alex and his crew
are shooting, who tries everything to keep Alex from falling deeper and
deeper into this rabbit hole. But will she succeed, and are her motives
completely selfless? Now narratively this film is a little hard
to follow, as its mythology is a bit murky, not all character motivation
are very clear, and not all reveals actually reveal as much as they ought
to. But one can only marvel at how beautiful the movie's filmed, and not
just for an indie at that. And its powerful cinematic language makes this
movie very effective, despite the relative lack of actual effects work,
and creates the right feeling of unease a film of this kind demands. And
add to that a competent cast, and you've got yourself a pretty cool piece
of horror.
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