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‘The Message’ Review: Iván Fund’s Melancholy Road Movie Is A Meditation On Life, Death And Hope – Berlin Film Festival
‘The Message’ review: Iván Fund’s melancholy road movie is a meditation on life, death and hope – Berlin Film Festival
When we first meet them, their sleep is disturbed by a man with a turtle — although Anika’s bread and butter is cats and dogs, the gift she has enables her to “connect with the soul” of any living creature, which will later include a hedgehog and, most memorably, a capybara. No one bats an eye at this, even when she reports back from a tête-à-tête with Junior the grumpy cat who tells her that, like one of the many surreal assertions from the car radio in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus, “the housewife hides truths”. Instead, it presents an immersive, atmospheric coming-of-age story, showing Anika’s truck-stop lifestyle as a bracing kind of anarchy (the vivid use of the Pet Shop Boys’ “Always on My Mind” momentarily brings some unseen color to the screen).
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