ACTING IS LYING, AND EVERYONE ACTS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE… Marcos
Marcos is a low-budget film director who lives in Barcelona who is despised because of his films. He is immersed in the shooting of his new project, a queer reinterpretation of the Italian Gaillo and metacinema, and although he has a cooperative team, he has financial troubles
We watch a parody of a terror/horror movie, drawing attention to the genre´s clichés without any essential purpose but for the sheer fun of it.
Metacinema is a cinematic term as old as cinema itself, the story of a filmmaker making films, (and of a screenwriter putting himself into his own movie). The Italian Gaillo is a 1960-80´s genre of mystery and thrillers, it refers to crime fiction and often involves a mysterious killer whose identity is not revealed until the final act, it is a misogynist genre and that is why the director makes a turn playing with it from an LGBT point of view.
In Cut! most of the characters are like caricatures of themselves, even the serious ones, superintendent and police detective included, the girl as an assistant director is very funny though. Writer/director Marc Ferrer also stars as the unaware director.
While we watch the cinematographic process and pay attention to the many details of the production, a kind of homage to classic cult films emerges, we notice obvious references to Dario Argento´s Suspiria , but also to John Waters films, Plus Pedro Almodovar´s Law of Desire and other of his early movies; Brian de Palma´s Dressed to Kill; Hitchcock´s Psycho, and even to Anita Ekberg in one scene of Amapola.
Samantha Hudson closes the film singing Beat Me Up For Spain (“Dame caña por España”), the transgressor single and video clip premiered almost a year ago on Oct. 12th, 2021 for Spain ‘s National Day.
Cut! Is an entertaining camp experience, although not for all tastes for sure.
The movie has been produced by Peliculas Inmundas and Filmin won the Audience Award at Lesgaicinema, Madrid International LGBT Film Festival, 2021 and Toulouse Cinespaña 2021
Available on DVD and Digital from Ariztical Entertainment www.Ariztical.com www.ArizticalOnDemand.com
Review by José Mayorga , Guatemala, Central America lawyer and notary public, visual artist, and editor of El Azar Cultural, lives and works in Guatemala City. Cinema lover, curious about the possibilities life brings and eager to live the experience.
