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The Cat Vanishes

The cat vanishes is an Argentinean film that works with very few characters. I was curious as to what sort of a film this would be since I came to know about the film's title during the IFFK 2011. But I missed the screening of the film during IFFK and caught up with it just today!
The cat vanishes is a well performed and brilliantly made film. My friend, Ritwik, who had seen the film told that I should check it out cause he felt this one to be something that seemed like a Hitchcockian film. I'm one huge fan of Hitchcock and Ritwik's words made even more curious about the picture. Once I saw the film, it  merely dint fall in the Hitchcockian ways of filmmaking but maybe a little of the Staney Kubrick way (of making the Shining) as well!
The film falls in the mystery genre and proceeds with supreme execution. The director, Carlos Sorin, doesn't have a great writing material but manages well with his classy making. The sound design and the shot division of the film adds the dimension of a horror and thrill as well to the proceedings. This was one of the elements that I so loved about the film as it took me to the edge of my seat for more than a couple of moments.
The characters and the setup are very limited but the film runs with immense smoothness for the duration of 90 minutes. The ending of the film did not quite satisfy me. Maybe it was because the conclusion was just as simple as the way the rest of the things in the film seemed. But I still loved a great deal of things about the film and wouldn't mind sitting through it all over again.

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