★★★★ This is a horror movie calculated so that the most typical effects of the genre are not present. It has a perfectly drawn image design, a realistic tone that avoids shrillness, a precious use of color and light, an almost minimalist soundtrack. “Stylish”, an American would say, and all of this tends to exhibitionism, to the “look mom, I’m filming without hands” of many directors who believe that design is above story. But in this case, both things feed off each other and generate a strange story that seems like the Kiarostami/Claire Denis/Lars Von Trier version of Little Shop of Horror: a genetically engineered plant that expels oxytocin and creates a feeling similar to happiness is actually something monstrous. But we assure you: there is more than the anecdote and it is one of the films that leaves us thinking about him.
