We told you not long ago about Rubber, the Cannes title about a homicidal radial tire on the loose in the California desert. Here's another juicy morsel from this year's program to tide you over until something more palatable (or even more ridiculous than Rubber) is served on the Riviera.
In viral shorthand, Somos Lo Que Hay (We Are What We Are), from director Jorge Michel Grau, has already been christened "the Mexican cannibal movie," based on its premise of a widow and her three teenaged children forced to feed themselves -- on human flesh, bien sûr -- after the family patriarch dies suddenly. Don't call him the breadwinner, though, as dad kept his brood well fed on the other, other white meat via daily cannibalistic religious rites that mom and kids must learn to perform themselves if they want to live.
The Director's Fortnight entry looks artful, meditative, even operatic -- if anything you'll want to feast on the imaginative sound design on display in the trailer while you're snacking away on your Soylent Green. But let's face it, cannibalism is hardly new to the Croisette. Anyone who's been been to a poolside business lunch at the Hotel Majestic knows those flashy movie executive types won't touch their Niçoises. They're too busy devouring each other.
[via Twitch]