Aro Tolbukhin – En la mente del asesino
Aro Tolbukhin - En la mente del asesino
Aro Tolbukhin, one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century, was reportedly born in Hungary and is soon to face a firing squad in Guatemala. Shortly before the execution, he grants an interview to two journalists, who discover that some facts don’t add up. Aro Tolbukhin – In the Mind of a Killer is a bewitching essay in meta-cinema and deconstruction, in which all documentary footage is fake while the story, if not untrue, is certainly free of any factual basis – enter the grey zone.
Fittingly, the different temperaments, textures and temperatures of small gauge formats, video, digital and the celestial 35mm fuse into an ambiguously sensual whole. After every cinelinguistic trope is turned inside out and upside down, Aro Tolbukhin – In the Mind of a Killer finally reveals itself: as one long and heady death-trip, one man’s delirium about himself.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Mexico, Spain
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 98"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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