La Antena

Take a deep cooking pot. Put a tablespoon of Maddin's visual style and a pinch of Méliès trickery together. While stirring add a few of Gilliam's quirky TV screens from Brazil and some very obvious Metropolis homage. Keep stirring till boil, then lower the heat and leave it to simmer for 15 minutes. 'La Antena' is what you will get. Somewhat tasty since the ingredients are decent but still not special. Please serve hot.

Who would have thought that a mixture of Fritz Lang and Sin City would make such an amazing movie. The plot, some 1984-like dictatorship-thing, is maybe not the most interesting one ever written, but the cartoonesque interpretation of old master like Lang and Eisenstein easily compensate for that. 02/07/09

I loved some of the style elements. Especially the use of text. Budgetary restrictions are worked around with technical cleverness. If only for that I respect the filmmakers immensely. Homage madness obstructs it from attaining individuality. Quite a piece.

Top notch editing, cinematography, and art direction, but an over-reliance on gimmicks and extremely heavy-handed symbolism really bog the film down.

This is a really cool film. Really well done, too. There were lots of shots that I would've been fooled into thinking they were from the 20s if I had seen them out of context. It has a pretty decent Orwellian story. There was some symbolism that was a bit too obvious, and some parts of the story didn't make complete sense. Still, it's a gorgeous-looking movie, and I really liked the music and the clever use of subtitles. I totally recommend it.

It's as if Sin City was directed by Fritz Lang, La Antena takes a great but simple premise and chucks a ton of silent movie inspired visual tricks at it. Bit heavy-handed metaphoring with the whole swastika/star of david imagery though...

Interesting attempt to recreate a 20s expressionist silent film does a much better job of the recreation than the concurrent GRINDHOUSE saga, however the narrative feels too familiar, incorporating elements of 1984 and METROPOLIS and never really managing to strike out on its own. Well performed and beautifully crafted (with some ghoulishly haunting imagery), this literally feels like a "lost" film of the silent era, and is a notable achievement on that basis.

Bizarre retro-futurist sci-fi done in the style of a silent film. The technique is brilliant but the story couldn't hold my attention.

If Georges Méliès would be caught in a magic beam and transported to these times, he would make a movie similar to this one. Magic of silent experimental movies and technology of today makes this little gem an unforgetable expierence. A must see.

Esteban Sapir directs this fairytale-like story to perfection. It's quite dark, pretty weird and sometimes a little nightmarish, but very engaging with minimum use of speech. The editing is also outstanding. Really a unique film

Orginal one but something is missing in that one Hard to keep watching

It looks magnificent, I am really, hats off.

Great use of music.

Don't watch sober

Pretty nice idea, rather lacking execution.

"Unmissable."

(...)Ein bisschen scheint Sapir da den Pioniergeist jener Zeit misszuverstehen: Die Klassiker versuchten nicht nur gut auszusehen, sondern vielmehr ein Medium zu entwickeln! Genug aber der kritischen Einwände, denn trotzdem bietet La Antena neben seinen wirklich wundervollen Bildern auch genug amüsante Momente, um gut zu unterhalten(...)

04 Mart 08, 20:25 & ifistanbul08 bunyesinde gosterildi fakat ben internetten indirip izledim.Filmi, masalsi bir kapitalizm betimlemesi olarak tanimlayabiliriz fakat anlatim tarzi bakimindan diger filmlerden siyriliyor.Sirf bu orjinalligi icin bile izlenmeyi hakediyor.ifistanbul08'de gosterimi yapilan, "La Zona" ile birlikte en iyi bagimsiz film.Estetik olarak, ozel efekt olarak ve haylgucu olarak cok ustun bir film.Kesinlikle kacirilmamali, mumkunse sinemada izlenmeli.@ dark city'den ilham alinm

A perfect marriage of image and sound. This is the type of movie that gives you a glimpse of what moviegoing was like back in the silent era, when all sound was provided by a live orchestra with pieces written specifically for the film. And whereas the later remasters of classics always seemed to phone it in when it came to perfect synchrony, this film prides itself in immaculate coordination. The real star though is the soundtrack, which is nothing short of haunting. A must watch.

Esteban Sapir created a fascinating movie that's really hard to discribe. The look reminds me a bit of the early Fritz Lang Movies. Some parallels to the silent movies are distinctive, too. At least "La Antena" is artfully, beautiful and really pretty to watch.

01.18

Absolutely delightful and creative use of words on screen, marvelous editing. I don't fully appreciate the heavy religious/WW2 symbolism, but it doesn't hurt the film too severely.

Visually beautiful