Amer is a 2009 French-language thriller film written and directed by French directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.

Cast

• Marie Bos
• Delphine Brual
• Harry Cleven
• Bianca Maria D'Amato
• Cassandra Forêt
• Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud
• Bernard Marbaix
• Jean-Michel Vovk

Release

The film was released at several film festivals, including the Lausanne Underground Film Festival

Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival

The Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, or LUFF, is a film festival and music festival devoted to underground film and music. It is held each year in Lausanne, Switzerland. It began with the formation of the LUFF Association For The Promotion of Independent Cinema. The festival thus rests...

, Fantastisk Film Festival, and Sitges Film Festival, and was released in French cinemas on 03 March 2010. The film had its US premiere as part of the South by Southwest

South by Southwest

South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...

 (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival on 12 March 2010. Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 included Amer in his Top 20 films of 2010, published by The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter

Formerly a daily trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter re-launched in late 2010 as a unique hybrid publication serving the entertainment industry and a consumer audience...

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Production

This French-Belgian giallo

Giallo

Giallo is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language it refers to a genre similar to the French fantastique genre and includes elements of horror fiction and eroticism...

film was produced and released in 2009. It is an hommage

Homage

Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more oblique reference, artistic or poetic....

to the films of Dario Argento

Dario Argento

Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....

 and Mario Bava

Mario Bava

Mario Bava was an Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films.-Biography:Mario Bava was born in San Remo, Liguria, Italy...

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External links

• Interview with Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani at Behind the Couch