[WE ARE THE FLESH screens Thursday February 2nd at 8:25 pm and Sunday February 5th at 8:45 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Eric Sever
When the apocalypse happens, why not indulge every twisted fantasy you may have? I mean, the world's over, so what have you got to lose?
WE ARE THE FLESH rather gleefully explores incest, rape, necrophilia, cannibalism, and even hints at pedophilia. Yet, this is no straightforward "Walking Dead"-style narrative about a crumbled society where people do nasty things to each other.
Writer/director Emiliano Rocha Minter has created a more slippery, metaphysical meditation on human sexuality. In short, it's more like an hallucinatory fever dream from inside the womb.
A dirt-stained man (Noe Hernandez) tries to exist in a decrepit warehouse by making gas and bartering through a mysterious hole in the wall. When a teenage brother and sister (Maria Evoli and Diego Gamaliel) arrive, the three slowly begin a seemingly nonsensical project, building a giant structure from salvaged wood and cardboard.
