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Summary Edward searches for biological family in Portugal. He finds a villa and reunites with his long-lost mother and twin. But their shared past holds a dark secret that will forever change his understanding of his identity and origins.
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Summary Edward searches for biological family in Portugal. He finds a villa and reunites with his long-lost mother and twin. But their shared past holds a dark secret that will forever change his understanding of his identity and origins.
It’s the quasi-gothic scenario that’s amusing here, and it’s as fraught as it is straight-forward. That and a perverse sense of humor puts “Amelia’s Children” over the top, though it’s never quite ha-ha hard enough to be satirical, nor sincere enough to be campy.
You can almost feel the director coming alive behind the camera whenever Amelia’s Children shifts gears from a gothic horror story to a giallo-inflected satire about the European aristocracy’s penchant for self-preservation at any cost.
A climactic tilt into a fight for survival remains sharply rendered by Abrantes, but it unfolds towards a forecast destination. The film’s evocative edge is gone.
Unfortunately, Amelia's Children seems content to coast on the most generic possible avenues the genre can provide, with little to no variation.
A hilariously awful collision of soap opera and horror movie, Amelia’s Children teeters so precariously on the cliff top of comedy that one wishes the director, Gabriel Abrantes, had dared to kick it over the edge.
Amelia's Children is a horror film that has moments of unintentional humor, but is ultimately dull rather than some sort of clever dark comedy.
Reuniram uma série de clichês do gênero aqui: um passado traumático enquanto bebês, uma mãe desolada com esse passado, um casarão no meio do nada, escuridão, momento tenso com um molho de chaves, cenas que não passam de sonhos (e ainda um sonho dentro do sonho!), uma figura "zumbi" meio esquisita, vários cortes estranhos e sustos apoiados na trilha... Ri com a cena da música, puseram um "Garota de Ipanema" bem ao estilo, vai qualquer música famosa em português, não importa o oceano que separa o Brasil de Portugal. As atuações até tentam, mas com um roteiro capenga não há muito o que fazer.
Production Company Artificial Humors
Release Date Mar 1, 2024
Duration 1 h 31 m
Tagline A mother's love never dies.
Gérardmer Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
MOTELx - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Terror de Lisboa
Toronto International Film Festival