DRAMA (2010)

DRAMA has good performances and was well-filmed (in a dark art-house style). It's provocative enough to overcome its flaws. Acting students MATEO, MARÍA and ÁNGEL want to take the methods to the extreme by blurring the line between acting and not-acting. Why? I don't know. I never really understood their motivation. I mean, their teacher didn't tell them to play specific characters, so it feels like they’re doing weird stuff just for the sake of it. It does fit with the atmosphere, because the movie is trying to be like the experimental plays that the characters appear in. However, with this premise, you either make a surreal movie or a character study. Mixing both didn't work very well. Also, some of the events are contrived and MATEO’s mommy issues are an unnecessary layer. No, really. If you cut them, the plot doesn’t really change.

7/10

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