Arbre Magique

Davide Piunti

Italie / 2024 / Fiction / 12’6”I2504720

Arbre Magique
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SYNOPSIS

[EN] ear a gas station, two teenage girls, Lisa and Margherita, ask an old woman named Antonella for a ride, with the aim of robbing her. In the middle of the journey, the old woman makes a stop on the road, moving away from her car. At this moment Lisa and Margherita discover that something is hidden in the trunk of the car and that deeply disturbs both. Back on the road, Antonella reveals to the young girls that she knows what they have done, that they have discovered her creepy secret. The old woman leads the girls into the woods, where she shows Lisa her precious hostage: a boy is crouched and tied inside the trunk, his hair is torn and his face is covered with blood. Lisa is in ecstasy: her dream has always been to kill a person and there is no better opportunity than this. Antonella takes advantage of her distraction to stick the syringe in her neck to make her fall asleep. Lisa wakes up tied to a tree, bloodied, without piercings and earrings, while Antonella spreads salt and reveals her sacred mission: to purify young people from their sins by removing from their bodies horrible unaesthetic nefarious things like tattoos and piercing. Meanwhile, Margherita, locked in the car, tries to turn on the off-road vehicle and pressing on the accelerator, Margherita crashes the car into the old woman. Overwhelmed by the adrenaline, Lisa and Margherita decide to start a new trip with the car of the deceased; lying in the back seats, the boy who was locked in the trunk slowly recovers and reveals to the girls that Antonella was his grandmother.

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