A surrealist psychological thriller, in which Venezuelan-Canadian filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand unpacks personal history alongside deep-rooted and “eternal” tensions that still affect the country today... from its very first frames, Death Has No Master is suspended in a foreboding, abstract, dream-like state.
— The Guardian, Radheyan Simonpillai
SYNOPSIS
Caro travels to Venezuela to sell her late father’s cacao plantation, only to find the family mansion occupied by its former staff, who are determined to remain at all costs. As Caro takes justice into her own hands to claim the inheritance she believes is hers, she sets off a struggle that unearths the violence buried in the land and its memory.
PRESS
"Impeccable bad vibes… goes full Latin-American Peckinpah" IndieWire - Daniel Katz
"Deeply unsettling." Cineuropa - Olivia Popp
"One might feel concerned about developing crotch rot" The Hollywood Reporter - Leslie Felperin
"Born like a nightmare... a true cinematic work" MediaPart - Cédric Lépin
"An outward spiral of violence brutal enough to stain the soil red" RogerEbert.com - Isaac Feldberg,
"Loving, scary, sexy and hypnotic" Dirty Movies - Victor Fraga
"Potent and mesmerizing" CBC - Radheyan Simonpillai
"Argento gives a ferocious performance" FilmUforia - Meredith Taylor
"Charged with poison. It has the energy of a viper waiting to strike" High on Films - Debanjan Dhar
SCREENINGS
Cannes Film Festival - Quinzaine des cinéastes. France
Locarno Film Festival. Switzerland
Filmfest München. Germany
New Horizons Film Festival. Poland
