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After his well-received directing debut, Dog Eat Dog, Colombian Carlos Moreno has made a satirical film whose message can be applied to any other country. We can easily find in our context the topic of the conflict between a common man, political interests, and the subsequent helplessness. Santoro, a village chump, finds a pile of corpses in a cornfield. Although he notifies local authorities, a maelstrom of absurdities sets in. The local mayor becomes worried that the event will sully his name for the upcoming elections, and looks for the easiest way to inconspicuously dispose of the bodies. (Febiofest)
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A harsh political allegory in which a massacre turns into a farce and the dead into an ancient chorus, which accentuates the absurd actions of the actors. Moreno certainly refers primarily to the shattered Colombian society, but in truth - thanks to a certain theatrical exaggeration and detached symbols - All Your Dead Ones is a universal image of impotent authorities, corruption, decay, passivity and helplessness. It's nice to see a film that doesn't have to force itself into anything and achieves urgency in a very economical way. The result makes one laugh through its irony, but it never slips into self-serving cynicism and shallow spitting, thereby staying with the pleasant tension between a "civil drama" and the parable of power/powerlessness.
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