Aoom

Aging movie icon Ristol is sick of his looks, his job – life as such. To escape this predicament, he puts his soul into a doll and lets his mortal body die. And that’s not the last earthly residence his spirit moves to. A completely bizarre fantasy tale that can also be looked at as a meta-movie about its star, Lex Barker, who by then was old, bored with the business, and living in semi-retirement.
‘Bizarre’ is also the best word to describe Aoom’s adventurous, excessively expressive, utterly outré style that indulges in fish-eye shots of interiors, a moody and at times very liberal use of slow motion, an in-your-face-attitude to colour, and an actor with an exceptionally weird nose. Back then, the film was deemed a fiasco and vanished almost immediately after its premiere. Today, one can rediscover it as an odd gem from a time in cinema when any mix of attitudes and genres was seemingly fair game.

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