Aoom
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| Original title | Aoom |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish , English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Gonzalo Suarez |
| script | Gonzalo Suárez Gustavo Hernandez |
| production | Enrique Esteban for Hersua Interfilms, Barcelona |
| music | Alfonso Sainz |
| camera | Francisco Marín |
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Aoom is a Spanish film with experimental happening, comedy and fantasy elements from 1970. It is one of the last two feature film productions with Lex Barker , which he shot in the spring of 1970, and has remained completely unknown outside of its country of manufacture.
action
One day the famous actor Ristol begins to question himself and his entire life. He sees himself as a prisoner of his body, his profession and his characteristics. While he is blowing a horn, lost in thought, he decides to leave his body and enter that of a doll to which he feels magically attracted, to merge with it and become one with it. Ristol's partner Ana, worried about his inexplicable disappearance, teams up with the quirky British detective Williams and two other people to find her boyfriend. Ristol's right hand Constantino, who has taken the doll, soon becomes eerie due to its suggestive power. In the middle of a rocky coastal landscape, Constantino tries to get rid of the doll. First he wants to kill her with a stone, then strangle her, and finally Constantino tosses the doll into the sea. Then the thin man makes a rather bumbling attempt at suicide.
Ana, on the trail of the doll and Constantino, reaches the point on the coast where the rope from his attempted suicide still dangles over an archway. When Constantino is caught, Ana beats him up and wants to find out from him the whereabouts of the doll. When Williams arrives with a torn off doll arm, he too receives Ana's blows. Soon she messes with everyone in her group. She thinks she has lost Ristol forever. Exhausted, she sits on the green lawn on the rocky coast and remembers a violent argument she once had with Ristol. Down at the seashore, Ristol's spirit wanders into the body of a dead woman in a diving suit who is lying on the beach among the rocks. She was murdered and now wakes up again, awakened to new life by Ristol's transmigration of souls. She finds the almost completely destroyed doll lying in the water on the beach and walks on the shore, where she meets Ana. Ana takes over the remains of the doll and, in the presence of her companion, buries them dignified on the meadow high above the sea rocks. Meanwhile, on the beach, the unknown woman in a wetsuit dies a second time, and the spirit of Ristol wanders into the interior of a stone that the dead woman is holding in her left palm. This takes on the grimace-like facial features of a human face with eyes and mouth.
Production notes
The production Aoom , which is not exactly poor in extreme and sometimes strange directorial ideas , was shot in February / March 1970 in Asturias (outdoor shots) and the Balcazar Studios in Barcelona (studio shots) and premiered in July 1970 as part of the San Sebastián Film Festival. After that it was de facto no longer shown. There has never been a performance outside of Spain.
Lex Barker only had a few scenes in this film where he spoke his appearances in English. Shortly afterwards he traveled on to Thailand to take on the second leading role in the German film romance When you are with me .
criticism
"One of those films that his pedantic director called 'my films made of iron'."
Web links
- Aoom in the Internet Movie Database (English)