Edinburgh Film Fest Report: Ants in the Mouth (Hormigas en la boca) Review
Posted by Todd Brown at 5:11pm.
Posted in Film & DVD Reviews , Drama, Mexico & South America, Edinburgh Film Festival 2006.
The Edinburgh Film Festival is underway and once again our friend Richard Brunton at Filmstalker has offered to share his coverage of the event with us here at Twitch. We won’t be reprinting all of his coverage though, not by a long shot, so get on over there for more ...
Ants in the Mouth was sold more on the gangster side of the film than anything else, and that’s rather unfortunate for there’s a lot more on offer here than just that. This is a film noir pulled towards modern day with a solid script and a setting in 1950’s Cuba, and it’s cinematic from the outset.
The opening is wonderfully filmed with some extremely well composed shots which chronicle the beginnings of the journey of our main character from Spain to Cuba. This continues through the film with the cinematography very high on the agenda and alongside the lighting, the excellent costumes and the superb locations, the film delivers high visually.
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