Ellos Volvieron 2015

Ellos Volvieron 2015
1h 34min | Crime , Drama , Horror | 1 January 2015 (Argentina)
Storyline:
They Returned is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened. No clues or signs are left, other than the fact that, as we discover later, two of them were mutilated. As the police carry out their investigation, and the town slowly sinks into a deep state of suspiciousness, small community of children – classroom colleagues of the missing three – run their own parallel search. Only one person is a potential suspect: the children's own classroom teacher, recently arrived from another town. He does not help his case when he attempts to make the school psychologist understand that the children were in fact murdered.
User review:
This is the sixth movie by fearless director Ivan Noel, and the most extreme. In each of his movies, Ivan explores deeply adult themes from a child's perspective. In En Tu Ausencia, he examined the idea of emotional need, set against the background of a boy's burgeoning sexuality. In Vuelve, he considered the idea of unhealthy emotional co-dependency between mother and son, and of stifling jealousy. In this movie, he explores the way that sins of the past can ripple down to the present.
I really wanted to like this movie more than I did, but I felt it was laboured, tried faaar too hard to be meaningful, and went out of its way to clutter the terrain with pointless red herrings.