“Los Sonambulos”: A slow-burning family drama

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Louise wakes up in the night and, suspicious of something, surprises her daughter Anna with a sleepwalking attack. Evil seems to have plagued the family for generations. But about that, it won’t really be a question anymore Los Sonambuloswhich continues in the family home, where cousins, uncles and aunts gather around the pool and meals every year: a family on vacation, with its predictable arguments and moments of harmony.

We regret selling the house; Louise, who is a writer, returns to work; Ana is dangerous with the mysterious Alejo, and the tension is deafening, palpable from the opening scene.

Paula Hernandez then spends her time covering the tracks. His film is meant to be a slow drama, so slow that it’s hard to understand where it’s coming from or if we understand it very well: it’s a story about legacy, about what we pass on to our children. I don’t want to transfer it to them, from a mother who has to accept that her daughter is beginning to change, somnambulism as a metaphor. In short, there is nothing new under the sun of a bourgeois chronicle, and the film, for its patience and delicacy, ends with its own suffering.