Kika Magalhães

Diana Agostini

Will Brill

Clara Wong

Olivia Bond

Joey Curtis-Green

Flora Diaz

Paul Nazak

Nicolas Pesce

Sean Durkin

Jacob Wasserman

Josh Mond

Connor Sullivan

Julie Christeas

Ariel Loh

Samuel R. Syrop

Sam Hensen

Caroline Keenan Russell

Seth Blogier

Zach Kuperstein

Schuyler Weiss

Antonio Campos

Stephanie Holbrook

David Formentin

Avi Stern

Max Born

Aerobo

Janine Maloney

Jeffrey Steven Brink

Michael Kurihara

Whitney Anne Adams

Erica Severson

Michael Craig Ferguson

Cory Fraiman-Lott

Cat Martin

Ted Maroney

Andrew Naugle

Leslie Bloome

Joanna Fang

Brian Budak

Anna Lomakina

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Horror

The Eyes of My Mother

Tandem Pictures

Borderline Presents

United States of America

English

Português

death of father

dead body

black and white

death of mother

horror

Gimly

Reminiscent of films like _Excision_ and _May_.

_Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._

Reno

**Incomplete lessons and unexpected events of a girl's life!**

The film story has a deeper thought than just what you see it as a psychological drama. Everything is simply like what the title says. A young woman grew up in an isolated farmhouse with her father without many visitors. But her interest in the eyes came from her mother who was a surgeon killed by an intruder. So her character was built on those circumstances and where her future head is to come in the later parts.

The concept looked much better, but the film was too slow, even though it was a little shorter than the average film runtime. It is also a black and white film, and looked fine for such theme. Even though there were not strong gore. Limited cast and shot most of the parts is a single location and its surroundings. So it is a small budget film with good casting. But I'm having a mixed feeling for it. I think some would like it, and some wouldn't, but the majority would be like me stand in the middle. So I conclude saying it is an okay-okay film.

_6/10_

Young director, Nicholas Pesce wanted us to watch a movie with the eyes of the psychopath he has created. So we see a dark horror film with so much emptiness everywhere across the film. But personally, what I never forgive, is when characters act absurdly. I am talking about the father, mother as well as their daughter. Her mother performs surgery of a head of a cow and teaches her little daughter about eyes. I am now sure how appropriate for a medical practitioner to behave in such a way in front of a child.
After a psychopath kills the mother, we see the father becomes depressed and the child cleaning blood - taking care of the imprisoned psychopath in an unkind, psychopathic way. So that means this girl was born without empathy, kindness and all those basic human attributes.
From this point, I am convinced both the father, the mother never behaved like normal human beings.
And I don't want to think about what goes on in this film, how this little girl maintains a daily life.
In the end, even we saw police cars straight heading to the insane psychopath's house. I was thinking, a woman, lived years in such prison, who we found in a scene she has become speech impaired, somehow able to tell the exact place under couple of hours of being rescued.
Another unusual yet terrible thing is when the insane psychopath, who I absolutely have no sympathy for, when was performing rough surgery, the victims didn't even scream. I really cannot imagine what was in the director's mind before making such a story or scene.
We see full shots, sometimes narrow shots through windows, or typically entrance of doorways. I appreciate the cinematography and the way it is directed but there is nothing new about it that we haven't seen before and nothing good about it that we haven't felt before.

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A review by Gimly

Written by Gimly on Mon Feb 06 2017

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