★★★★ Horror movie with prestigious actors and independent film treatment. Such elements can cause mistrust. Especially if we talk about a single woman harassed by totally male presences, which makes the metaphor anything but subtle (and there are also apples on a tree that, jokingly, are called “forbidden fruit”). Perfect: all this tells us “let’s talk about how badly men treat women”, which is not bad but is rudely didactic. But, and this is where we are going to justify the four little stars with which we recommend this film, Men has two things that go beyond the intention “content”: the disturbing climate in which a remote house and a forest and a small town are transformed into menacing shadows, and the performance of leads Buckley (especially) and Kinnear, the latter in multiple (literal) guises. Little by little, what seems like a denunciation is really transformed into a metaphysical tale, in the purest terror that comes to confrontation. Even with its lack of thematic subtlety, the form is gripping and disturbing, without overdoing it with special effects or random scares. The feeling of reality and unreality, the impossibility of establishing whether what we see is real in the world of the film or a hallucination, reach, towards the end, a link with the archaic and the mythological that makes everything much more complex than it seems. .
