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| The Others by Alejandro Amenábar |
In 1945, when World War II ends, there is a detached house lost in the fog on the island of Jersey. Grace and her two children with a rare and incurable disease live there, the children can't be in contact with the sunlight. She engages three mysterious people, who one day knocked on the door looking for work, as servants. But then strange events begin. The children then talk to their mother about the "Others" that they have seen several times.
They are there ....
Probably one of my favorite movies. Nicole Kidman is masterful. The sets and staging are perfect. They create an atmosphere conductive to stress. The disease of children adds even more to it. It is also very well distilled to the end. The story's end is psychologically horrible, as it should be in all films of the genre, and for once I did not see that coming !
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