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Apartment Zero (1988)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:15
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The proprietor of a Buenos Aires revival-house cinema meets an American "free spirit;" and before long, he has agreed to let the stranger board in his flat, which is decorated with pictures of... The proprietor of a Buenos Aires revival-house cinema meets an American "free spirit;" and before long, he has agreed to let the stranger board in his flat, which is decorated with pictures of movie stars. Although the theater owner obsequiously vies for the American's affections, he becomes aware that unexplained murders have been taking place in the city, and that his lodger may not be exactly what he seems. As their relationship develops, both men attempt to discover who the other one is, and what he is striving to attain. [More]
Starring: Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Liz Smith, Dora Bryan
Starring: Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Liz Smith, Dora Bryan, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, James Telfer, Mirella D'Angelo, Juan Vitali, Francesca Daloja, Miguel Ligero, Elvia Andreoli, Marikena Monti, Cipe Lincovsky
Director: Martin Donovan
Director: Martin Donovan
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Reviews for Apartment Zero
The film is so leisurely paced and low-key, and perhaps a bit too vague when it's trying to be enigmatic, that it becomes boring.
Donovan's bizarre, riveting thriller surely belongs on any list of the best "movies you've never heard of."
Apartment Zero is a psychological drama that is part black comedy and part erotic thriller.
A victory of style over substance, with crisp direction and a pair of remarkable performances carefully obscuring a very shaky screenplay.
It gets your attention, makes you laugh and passes the time for a while.
Part psychological drama, part serial killer mystery and part black comedy, [it] isn't for the casual viewer; but if you like your horror on the peculiar side you'll gladly open the door to Apartment Zero.
It pretends to be a psychological-political melodrama but plays like the work of a dilettante; that is, the work of someone who wants to make movies, has the means to make them, but doesn't, as yet, know what he wants to make them about.
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