(Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marino fearful- The photos are published with the permission of Rome Film Fest)

Presented for the thirteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival - in the Official Selection - The Mystery of the House of Time is the latest work of the famous American film director Eli Roth.

And the story, this, the small Lewis, who was orphaned of both parents, will live in the home of weird uncle, brother of his mother. The man, always in close contact with an equally singular neighbor, is a bumbling wizard who lives in a villa full of clocks and objects and furniture that, from time to time, They seem to come alive on the sly. Once you ambientatosi in this new world, Lewis will be involved from the two important secret mission: discover the origin and meaning of the ticking of a clock hidden inside the walls of the house.

Lively, colored, total dynamic in the staging, This new product signed Eli Roth leaves, however, to be desired with regard to pace themselves, often uneven and poorly calibrated, and as for a script that tends to pull the whole thing too long, especially as we approach the final. and yet, said this, the staging story captures the attention from the first minute, strong even a wise and mature direction that knows advantage is the numerous special effects present, who researched sets, such as the, in turn, They make the house of the protagonists an additional character, considered essential to all effects and important personalities.

Everything is going to converge in a strong metaphor of power, the war and how they can harm both humans themselves that the relationships between them.

A feature film, therefore, I thought so for children, but that, at the same time, is going to tell us something universal and which shows that Eli Roth, Also in these clothes of the singer for the very young, He can be perfectly at ease.

marina fears