Review of Agnosia

Agnosia is a beautiful film. I mean, from an aesthetic point of view is very beautiful. In a retro-futuristic setting, that looks like past but seems to be timeless, you can see a wonderful cinematography made of light and shade effects from which colors come out to be the only guide for the protagonist, Joana. In fact, the day her father is presenting a new astonishing lens for sights, the little Joana faint. When she wake up she can't recognize faces or distinguish objects and places. She grows up and turn into a woman who can't trust her senses. From then, the director plays with his style alternating the chaos in front of Joana eyes with such refined shots to make the movie look like an academic exercise. But what remains is just the idea of an ecercise, and little by little it starts being boring, and all the promises the trailer made - fantasy, eroticism, thriller, spy story - fade away to become a not so original drama with a love triangle and the old story of the man who started with deceiving the girl and end up with falling in love with her. While the subject 'lens' and their real nature are put aside - and leave you a little disappointed and full of questions - the ending comes. Not the most brilliant but the only possible ending.