This force is described as primitive, but really it’s a kind of longing, both sexual and romantic, for the sort of intimacy that can only be found among friends and family.
The film’s deeds make good on such words, with brief glimpses of the pleasure-giving entity raising more than just eyebrows. “The Untamed” is never as alluring as when people are speaking of that which resides in the wilderness, and in us as well: “It’s never going to disappear it’s only going to perfect itself.” We want to see what that might be, even and especially if we’re afraid of beholding it. Like Ale and Veró, though, our anxiety is always mixed with curiosity and the feeling that whatever might be out there is worth seeking out. The extraterrestrial element disappears for a good long while as domestic concerns come to the fore, though talk of lucid dreams and the appearance of an ominous-looking black dog ensure that our sense of unease never dissipates. There remains the fact that at the heart of this all is a monster straight out of the weirdest porn you’ve never seen, but “The Untamed” never devolves into a sideshow or hollow provocation. Nothing will ever be the same.” He responds to his new friend by telling her he’s nervous she replies, not so comfortingly, by assuring him that “it’s going to like you.” Veró herself is an otherworldly being, the kind whose mind seems filled with constellations all its own and seems unbothered that most others either can’t or won’t hum on the same frequency, as well as the film’s most intriguing presence (whether human or otherwise). “It’s the most beautiful thing you’ll see in this life,” Veró tells Fabián of what she’s discovered out in the woods.
Simone Bucio in “The Untamed” Strand Releasing Say hello to Verónica (Simone Bucio), whose intergalactic love affair somehow isn’t the most bizarre romantic entanglement in the film. “The Untamed” opens on a meteor in space before cutting to the naked body of a young woman who appears to have just finished copulating with a rather large tentacle.
It’s frequently beautiful, too, with cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro (who also lensed “Nymphomaniac”) capturing the strange goings on and foggy environs in all their alien glory. This is the kind of experience that might tell you more about yourself as both a viewer and a person than you’re comfortable knowing it’s also the most alluringly strange movie of the year so far. There are no talking foxes in Amat Escalante’s latest whatist, but chaos still reigns.Īnd though “La región salvaje” translates literally as “The Wilds,” one struggles to imagine a more fitting title for this surreal erotic thriller than “The Untamed.” The Mexican auteur, who last divided audiences with the punishing “Heli” (for which he won Best Director at Cannes), takes a cue from Andrzej Żuławski’s “Possession” in his tentacled pulse-pounder about the pain and pleasure of love in all its forms.
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