Fantastic Fest XVII Review: AMAZING ELIZA, Exploring Trauma To Reveal A Bigger, More Peculiar Picture
As far as she’s concerned, Eliza (Jana San Antonio) is no ordinary girl. Point, in fact, she is thoroughly convinced that she is a superhero and that the only thing that sets her apart from her favorite comic book superhero is that she herself doesn’t have a dog… This is just part and parcel to the surreal goings-on we see in writer/director Sadrac González-Perellón’s new drama, Amazing Eliza. Slow-moving and pensive and sometimes chilling, the story toggles between several arcs, the second of which also centers on the troubled marriage between artist and gallery owner, Hector (Asier Exteandia) and his paraplegic wife, Ursula (Silvia Abascal), and third of which revolves around a mysterious woman who also happens to be something of a living personification of Eliza’s favorite superhero. These three arcs all culminate into what González-Perellón crafts as a surrealistic psychological drama that tries to speak to the ways in […]