In 1978 workers at a factory are hoping for a new and better contract. When the contract isn't what they hoped a bunch head into the country and a commune where they hope to restart their lives with a tantric cult.
Feeling like a film that no one has made since the late 1970's when films like this caused certain types of art house films to fall out of favor, ARO BERRIA hopes to chart the course of people looking for something new and rewarding and instead finding something else.
I'm not going to lie, this film didn't really work for me. The early sequences in the factory were too political in a way that I've only ever seen in European art house films of the 1970's. The shift to the commune pushed me further away as there was too much of watching people do exercises with blindfolds on and not enough personal interaction.
This is exactly the sort of film that New Directors New Films has been highlighting over the last few years, intensely art house choices that will never get a run outside of the festival circuit.
For art house film lovers only.
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