VIFF 2015: The Similars gets weird and weirder
The Similars (Mexico)
It’s tempting to think that the breakout success of The Incident—one of the best films in last year’s Altered States program—provided the amazing gusto that animates writer-director Isaac Ezban’s second feature (hot off the press as it arrives here). The pulpy premise this time around dumps a bunch of desperate people into a bus station as the entire world succumbs to an impossibly huge hurricane. And then it gets really weird, with Ezban drumming up a high visual style to match his outlandish concept, and almost succeeding heroically at both.
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