Oriane

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Audience Member PAN AND SCAN. La historia es bastante estándar, pero el sutil aura de misterio y, sobre todo, de transitoriedad que logra la directora es ejemplar. / The story is quite standard, but the subtle aura of mystery and, especially, transience that the director accomplishes is quite exemplary. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Verla era una tarea pendiente. La mejor pelicula venezolana que he visto. Poco dialogo, mucha imagen, muy bien hecha. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I remember watching Fina Torres's opera prima and being transported to the days when I was just a girl and I visited my godmother's HUGE hacienda in the middle of Venezuela, surrounded by lush vegetation... just plants and marshes and posionous animals hehe. It was pretty but sad and scary, and you couldn't help being bothered by the humidity and thinking about ghosts at night. that's sort of what Oriana is. It's almost entirely evocative, there's even hardly a story being told. As a matter of fact, it is revealed with hesitation, discreetly, in a way that doesn't strictly <i> narrate </i> anything. Oriana's niece María comes from France to the Venezuelan countryside in order to arrange the sale of her Aunt Oriana's hacienda. As she walks through the abandoned house she remembers a summer she had spent there when she was a little girl, and all the odd pieces and ambiguous hints she had collected about a very strange presence in the house. Her recollections suggest anything from a vampire to a ghost to a serial killer, and yet nothing at all. The film wonderfully keeps Aunt Oriana's secret just below our noses and reveals it ever so subtly by the end. Meanwhile, it uses the resources of mood and suggestion to create a dark, sensual story about a dark, sensual theme that is always just around the corner. Watching Oriana is like chasing a shadow, overhearing a morbid conversation... or seeing a fire light up in the distance during an evening walk in a hacienda where you know no one else is lodged. A thousand explanations can occur to you, and you may just leave it at that, but you never really know for sure. Oriana is one of two Venezuelan films that have received awards in Cannes; this one was awarded the Caméra d'Or in 1985. As in most Venezuelan films, Oriana suffers from a few uneven, low-rate performances (several conversations amongst friends have yielded a consensus: bad acting brings most national productions down). Still, the leads are actually quite decent and will not distract. The cinematography and art direction are the highlights. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Esta pelicula es hermosisima, las actuaciones son excelentes, sobre todo la Sra. Doris Wells se destaca. Excelente la direccion y la fotografia. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautifully acted by Doris Wells, and the story is compelling in its mystique, but ultimately just not all THAT compelling. Lovely, though. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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