This movie is an absolute hallucination; there is no plot, visually is black and white standard, nothing new, but it is powerful in the realm of the subconscious. Avida is a fat woman that somewhat resembles Divine: a woman that is eating chips all day and when her dog is kidnapped she asks to the kidnappers to take her life. So you'll have an approximate of your worst nightmare from a drunken night when watching it. The movie was selected to compete in Cannes but was discarded immediately. Maybe this kind of experiment is a cool thing to watch when smoking a good joint but i wonder what is the meaning or transcendence of this mess. At least when you watch a David Lynch movie you are also confused but you can appreciate the work behind: In his movies there's good direction, organic and artesanal decorates, good actors and the presence of emotion as another character but here is all nonsense. Funny nonsense, anyway.(There's a cameo from Claude Chabrol). All is absurd and pointless but it acquires some meaning if you see it with the eyes you watch your dreams.
Review of Avida
