Amer

AMER is split into three distinct vignettes: In the first, a young girl sneaks around in her family's old house, catching glimpses of spooky things (as well as other things that people do at night). In the second, a teenager, bored while her mother visits the hairdresser, wanders off with a young man. In the third, a woman returns to her childhood home, now overgrown, but as evening comes, she finds that she may not be alone. Whether these three are supposed to be the same person at three stages of her life or just represent three stages of life themselves is relatively unimportant; although you can find obvious links between the episodes, what is important is that each features its protagonist confronting sexuality and mortality - all three segments become richer and more intriguing as they are merged into a whole. The complete AMER is something special; gorgeous to look at and as tense as they come. Jay Seaver, www.ecritic.com