{"id":10566,"date":"2015-07-22T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T13:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giff.mx\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T13:11:26","slug":"critic-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/critic-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Critic: H."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dir. Rania Attieh & Daniel Garc\u00eda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Official Selection International Feature: Argentina\/United States<\/p>\n

\"H-poster\"The Richter Scale says<\/strong>: Among the things a woman has in life is motherhood, that feeling of having a baby develop inside you and then come out as a fully formed human being ready to wander the world. It\u2019s this idea that the future is growing inside you that gives people hope about life and in this film, Rania Attieh and Daniel Garc\u00eda (in one of three projects they have collaborated on to date) explore what happens when two women lose that future while something is happening that could destroy the future for all mankind. These two women, while very different, have three things in common. They\u2019re both named Helen, they live in the same town and both have a broken link to a maternity that was never realized.<\/p>\n

The first Helen (Robin Bartlett)is in her 60\u2019s, lives with her husband in the town of Troy in New York State (Helen of Troy, just so you know what they\u2019re doing here) and has a doll she takes care of as if it were an actual baby (she even breastfeeds it). We never find out why she\u2019s doing it, though I\u2019m sure everybody will have their theories. The only thing we know is that this baby isn\u2019t real and she\u2019s not the only woman who\u2019s doing that (there\u2019s a group, apparently). The other Helen (Rebecca Dayan) is 34 years old and has a successful art business with her husband Alex and she\u2019s 4 months pregnant. When we\u2019re with her we find out that something strange has happened and through that, people start going missing, including Helen\u2019s baby disappearing from inside her as if she never pregnant. Was she? All we know is this incident drives both Helens to madness.<\/p>\n

\"H<\/a>It\u2019s always admirable when a movie refuses to tell the audience exactly what\u2019s going on and instead trusts its two actresses (both phenomenal) to carry the emotional weight of it all. If the characters don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on, why should the audience? Why shouldn\u2019t we be as frightened as they are, or at least frightened for them? The story is divided into five acts, like a Greek Tragedy and there are other connections to Greek Mythology that I\u2019ll leave for you to discover.<\/p>\n

This film screens today at 2:00 at the Ju\u00e1rez Theater. Don\u2019t miss it!<\/p>\n

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