A father grieveing the loss of his son, heads off to sea and ends up pulling his son from the water, however if he wants to keep the boy alive the gods require a sacrifice.
This is heady and emotional film. The film is a look at grief, guilt and mouring in an unexpected way. While framed as a kind of fairy tale or something full of magical realism, the film is also a kind of horror film as we watch a man deal with the worst thing that most people can imagine. It's a film that seeks to ponder its ideas in unexpected ways, melding Christian ideas with those of the Aztecs. It is a film that is going to leave many in the audience broken.
When you see this film, don't think about notions of genre or classifications. SACRIFICIOS is not really anything other than one man's walk through the dark place of child loss. The shifts through various "genres" is simply a way of examining the dark night of the soul at the center of the tale. I say this because I know that since the film is playing at Fantaspoa some people are going to go into the film looking for it to be a horror film. It kind of is, but it really isn't. This is the best sort of film, an examination of the human condition in another form.
This is something special. See it.
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