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Also known as The Fury Of A Patient Man. Spanish revenge movie that was the big winner of this year's Goya Awards. It follows a seemingly well established man who spends his leisure time in a small urban neighborhood hanging out with local patrons of a bar. He has an apparent interest in the woman working there, who struggles as the father of her child, a convicted felon of a jewelry store robbery, is set for release. But as the man becomes closer to her, it appears his interest in her has more to do with her partner almost coming home. Like most big Goya winners it's not as good as you'd expect, but it's still a fairly well-made thriller with some genuine moments of suspense and at least one true, unfiltered classic moment involving the most effective use of an extreme close-up on a pair of eyes since Sergio Leone still roamed the earth.
 

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I don't know why Mexican directors are so obsessed with weird sex stuff, but at least that's why we get movies like La Region Salvaje (The Untamed). A woman visits a scientist couple living in the woods who are researching an alien tentacle monster that gives immense sexual pleasure, but also strikes violently when he grows tired of you. Another woman is in a dried up marriage with a tough-acting macho husband who is secretly fukking her brother on the down low. When the first woman becomes friends with the brother and introduces her to the ultimate pleasure alien, the friction in the family's life starts to spin out of control. For all the fans of tentacle porn, explicit gay sex, animal orgies (yes, animal orgies) and some aqcuired social drama.

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Even looking at the poster you can tell the No Country For Old Men influences on this Romanian thriller. A young man from the city inherits a large piece of land in the countryside from his grandfather, and intends to sell the largely desolate land as fast as possible. But the reason his grandfather originally obtained this piece of land was to freely (and violently) run his criminal business, and the ruthless man who inherited this business has no intention on letting this outsider city boy put an end to it. In the midst of this is an old cop, who feels himself become less useful every single day and wants to leave a final mark on his job. The narrative deliberately gives out little information, allowing you to feel as thrust into this strange world as the main character and only through interaction do you slowly put the pieces together. Add some genuinely well-placed suspense and ton of allegory, and you got yourself one effective copycat.
 
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