Gothic and weird. Worths to see it

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2001)

To be honest when I decided to go and see this film I thought that acting Nicole Kidman would be a nice and "handsome" film without having read almost anything about it.
I was misjudging the director and the "beautiful" actress, because this important film from the Chilean/Spanish Amenabar is much more than a normal thriller or a "scary movie". The photography is rather gothic, and since the beginning there is a sense mistery around this "haunted" house. The lack of light which is a "leit-motiv" of the action helps you to enter into Amenabar's world. As soon as the action goes on some elements are disclosed to the spectator but you have to wait up to the end to understand the whole plot.
Nicole Kidman is the right actress in the right role, a bit "northernish" and of course beautiful.
Rating: 6/10