El Incidente (2014)
Chosen by Patrick who responded to my facebook call for more interesting movies with nothing but the enigmatic sounding two words 'el incidente'. I had never heard of it.
An interesting low budget effort from Mexico that uses just two locations (one closed off and one more intriguingly open aired) to fashion a sort of Twilight Zone fable that manages, despite some repetition (inherent in the set-up) to maintain suspense for it's running time.
The theme of the film when it reveals it's hand is fairly on the nose (some dialogue points out the main thesis earlier on) and perhaps more reductive than illuminating (are old people less happy than the young?) but it's told with such bravura that you can't help but be swept up in it.
The performances perhaps let the film down a little as the characters get a little lost in the puzzle machinations that more compelling actors may have been able to avoid.
Confidant and thought provoking.
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