14 Days With Victor

Dir: Roman Parrado; 2010; Spain;  Margo Tilley, Fernando Tielvey; 88 Mins.

This film has got the girl from 9 Songs in it, and that’s virtually all I can find out about it. The synopsis on the official website says the following:

Victor is a shy young man who struggles to survive in London. A chance meeting leads him to Martin and Anna, two artists who share the same studio and vital moment. Martin wants to relaunch his career while at the same time having to constantly look after his brother, an old boxing star who longs to get back into the ring. Anna is slowly losing her father after a long and physically devastating illness. Victor enters their life as breath of fresh air. Despite his young age, he will lead them to situations with seductively unpredictable consequences.

It all looks a bit worthy and pensive, then I looked at the director’s notes and read the following;

14 Days With Victor is a violent movie. It speaks of sacrifice, of the martyr, of the sublimation of the spirit through torture. Violence, therefore, is present in almost every corner of the film in its most physical, most visual sense.
This does not mean that it has to be a dark film in its form. On the contrary. The objective is to reflect the poetic side of suffering, of the violence that is imposed. Thus, our visual approach tries to distance itself from all of the violent iconography that we associate with genres such as gore, B movies, gothic terrors. We try, rather, to approach the ‘religious’ perspective on the topic: violence must be tied to beauty, to light, to a supposed ascent of the spirit.

The examples from each school are numerous. We believe that 14 Days With Victor should be more visually similar to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel, than to Hostel, by Eli Roth; closer to Arnofsky’s La Fuente de la Vida (The Fountain) than to James Wan’s Saw.

Wow, heavy stuff. I think this might be too far up it’s own arse for us, I’ll wait ’til I see the trailer to make a final decision.

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