Hipnosis

Hipnosis is a 1972 avant-garde film by car:Cristove Vianna starring Martha Bergher, Vic Manley and Annabel Ský. It was prouced by James Carroll and it was a cooperation between Studio 5 of Brunant and Lovia's Transbaum Films and was his biggest, most expensive production.

Plot
Jennifer (Bergher) is just another person in that routine machine that is life. Around her, she sees her husband (Manley), mother (Ský) and everyone else just doing the same boring routine day after day. After years of this they become like hipnotized zombies, with no wants and no dreams. Jennifer becomes fearful of society as it has become, since they do not look up towards anything, and having become weak-minded, are in a perfect state to be manipulated as one would control a robot. Thus, Jennifer is forced to help her world free itself from their lives in order to save them from themselves.

Filming and style
Vianna was extremely involved in the film's production to ensure it was just as he required. He made the color gray the dominating tone of the scenes to emphasize the mundane world being shown. Manley and Ský, plus a few others close to the main character were actually hipnotized at parts to make the filming seem more credible.

Release and reception
Critics praised the film for its appearance and story concept, but they felt that the acting was not great, and above all Vianna's constant interfering which limited the artists' abilities. At the box office, it was not a smash hit and lost the production companies approximately US$65,000.