La Antena

This is quite possibly the strangest film that I will see this year. An Argentine sci-fi/thriller filmed in black and white and in the style of a silent film (because the city's population have had their voices stolen), it references some of the most famous images in cinematic history. There's Fritz Lang in there, Melies, early Soviet sci-fi and even James Whale as well as hints of Expressionism and Surrealism, and more imagination than any Hollywood blockbuster can manage. Not that it's all fluffy pastiche. Far from it. The strange deformed and hooded monkey-like henchman could give any child nightmares and the entire concept of people being robbed not only of their voices but ultimately of words is deeply disturbing. Lang would be proud of it's vision of a totalitarian society, feeding on itself.