Cinema of the World

THE FILM
What would you do if the world was going to end in 72 hours?
The U.N. Secretary General has announced that a gigantic meteorite will collide with the Earth in three days time. There is no hope of survival after the impact. The world is swept by despair, chaos and death. The inhabitants of the isolated town of Laguna listen in terror to the news.
Seeing the collective hysteria, Ale, a frustrated young man who lives with his mother and does odd jobs around the town, decides to spend his final days shut away in his house, getting drunk and listening to his favorite music.
But his plans change suddenly when he finds himself forced to help his mother, Rosa, to protect his brother's four children against the arrival of Lucio, an ambiguous, disconcerting stranger with obscure intentions
Ale, Rosa, Tomas... real characters in a real setting: LAGUNA, an isolated town somewhere in the south of Spain. The initial treatment of the story, apparently conventional, takes a sudden turn, just like the story Itself when a staggering news report shatters the monotonous existence in LAGUNA. Within three days Humanity will be wiped out... three last days in which a series of events will propel our characters towards a violent and unexpected end.
F. Javier Gutierrez




"A hypnotyc mix of thriller, science-fiction, drama, fantasy and horror"..."A shattering portrait of a family on the verge of destruction draped in sadness as well as beauty"..."F. Javier Gutiérrez’s debut has already caused a buzz."
(Stockholm film Festival)




"3 Dias is a razor sharp terrifiyng film". The whole thing is made with such an attention to detail and is so stylistically confident that its a pleasure to watch just for those reasons." (Wieland Speck Head of the Panorama Section - Berlinale)




"Well-shot, with a tremendously apocalyptic atmosphere"
El Pais




"Not for the weak nerves". Gutierrez creates an atmosphere of reme discomfort"..."he blurs the boundaries between reality and dream creating a tremendous tension."
(Das Blog Zum of)




"Atmospheric...". carefully-groomed indie genre look"..."rather nasty children torture scenes near the end will put off parents."
(Screen Daily)




"One of the most original genre films in years, a quadruple winner at the Málaga film fest. Shocking and brilliantly executed, F. Javier Gutiérrez's first feature will leave you shaken." (Lane Kneedler, AFI Fest)




"... Michael Haneke effectively mined this territory in an intimate fashion with Time of the Wolf, but in that film society and humanity plunges onward crippled but not entirely broken. Canadian writer director Don McKellar probably has the closest analogue with the fabulous Last Night in which the characters spend their brief remaining time in an elegiac fashion. Despite (or because of) some radical changes in tone across each of the three acts of the film, Tres Días certainly belongs in the fine company of both those films. And it certainly does not hurt that the film is shot with the a quality of visual sophistication. The gorgeous bone-bleach cinematography on display would feel right at home in a Nuri-Bilge Ceylan movie. Eye of the storm images of people staring up at the sky as the beast approaches underscore the equally frantic moments by those very same people, giving the film tonal range beyond what one often expects from this type of film. There are always new stories and methods of mining a genre or carrying one film inside and outside the fuzzy boundaries of ‘genre’. A character in the film, one of the children, even echoes this sentiment asking for a bedtime story from Ale, who thinks that the 12-year old is past such things. Nobody is ever to old for stories. And no one is above human drama regardless of what is promised at the end of the day."
Twitch



Tres Dias (Before the Fall) - Spanish writer-director F. Javier Gutiérrez proves that films about armageddic meteorites crashing into the earth can be both intelligent and moving. Deep Impact it ain't.
telegraph.co.uk




"An atypical shotgun blast of paranoid suspense and melancholic anxiety"..."BEFORE THE FALL" is equal parts modern Western, society falls apart drama and serial killer revenge thriller all the while operating withing a disarmingly minimalist approach that refuses to let the film fall into simple spectacule"
(Mitch Davis, Fantasia Int. Film festivalL)




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