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The Blue Years (2017)
The Blue Years: the charm in the mundane
It is in the memories of a past not so distant where sometimes the deepest nostalgia is born. From this diffuse line between now and yesterday, from its strange closeness, a look arises that yearns for, and that wishes to revive what it considers lost. All experiences, pleasurable and detestable, acquire meaning over time; meaning that is obviously personal, but also marks a generation, not only identified with intimate memories, but they themselves will give meaning to their experiences through a look as alien as family.
The debut feature by the filmmaker Sofía Gómez Córdoba, "Los Años Azules", a film that tells the story of Jaime, Silvia, Andrés, and Angélica, a group of flatmates who added to their family and love problems the unexpected arrival of Diana, a bohemian tenant who also does not seem to have a settled life.
The movie is presented from a voyeuristic perspective (manifested through the quasi-ubiquitous feline Schrödinger), which from windows, roofs, and open-roof patios allows us to spy and enter the daily lives of the protagonists, whose interests, aspirations, and such different lifestyles, are put aside to agree in meetings as warm as an endearing and organic, remarkable acting work achieved alongside the director.
Throughout this roomie drama we do not abandon the unique location that is the house, which far from leading to boredom, allows a detailed exploration of space and its importance in the development of conflicts, some better rounded than others. Contained situations in miniscule appearance, whose emotional power lies precisely in approaching them and discovering their particularities, making them an empathetic portrait of loneliness, the frustration of unfulfilled dreams, and the search for love.
In The Blue Years we find a deep feeling of farewell: to the friends who leave, to a house in ruins, to a brief time that has been absent, but not completely forgotten. A retelling of worldliness, which seemed to have no end, and which now is wished would never have ended.
El refugio de los insomnes (2018)
The symptom of diversification
The Mexican film industry has been able to take advantage of streaming platforms to adapt, and even innovate, its cinematographic products, with the aim of supplying a new audience that has similarly learned to consume films outside the cinemas. In a country where nearly two hundred films are produced each year, and half of them do not make it to theaters, the emergence of digital distribution spaces emerges as an unavoidable and necessary alternative, but also as an object of debate; What kind of online content is the one that should be available? Should it be equal to what is offered in traditional distribution spaces? What is the responsibility assumed by these spaces for the national film offer?
Directed by Joseduardo Giordano and Sergio Goyri Jr., The Sleepless Club tells the story of Danny (Cassandra Ciangherotti), Santiago (Leonardo Ortizgris), and Estela (Alejandra Ambrosi), three frustrated young adults who share their sleeplessness, dreams and failures in a small mini-market where they meet every night.
Although it is unusual for a production to have more than one director, the result is far from justifying this creative commitment. Despite there are characters with clear conflicts, none of them is developed concretely, the film lacks a real climate moment, and most situations lack an outcome that leads to a satisfactory conclusion. To all this is added the fact that Giordano and Goyri Jr. themselves served as scriptwriters, giving them a largely untapped authorial freedom.
From the cast is perhaps Ciangherotti the most remarkable, that between her role as shy, resigned, and sad looking mother, as she executed in '' Timeshare (2018) '', and this movie, where she becomes a rebellious, bitter, and artistic cashier, she demonstrates her talent for mutation in front of the camera while embodying her character with masterful skill. Unfortunately, this actress is left behind by the script, which for no reason decides not to explore the dramatic possibilities of the enigmatic blue haired girl.
The biggest challenge for national productions at the moment is not how to make more movies, but how to get more movies to be seen. The diversification of the ways of watching films should also imply a diversification in the themes and their narrative proposals, otherwise only the old production models would be reaffirmed, without any discourse that favors the new platforms or question the films made under traditional schemes.
Resurrección (2016)
Resurrection: the tireless struggle of longing
The other great power of cinema, that which is not measured in special effects, renowned actors, or numbers of tickets sold, is what allows to capture reality without adornments or tapujos, whose manifestation par excellence is the documentary genre; this vast spectrum of audiovisual art is where our country has stood out in recent years, partly due to a budget issue that practically forced many filmmakers to abandon fiction; but it is also because Mexico is a hotbed of stories, although some of us do not like them; Clear example of this leaves '' Resurrection '', a tape that shows a story of indignation, despair, and impunity.
Resurrección, the documentary's fourth documentary by the Mexican Eugenio Polgovsky, portrays the lives of the inhabitants bordering the waterfall of El Salto de Juanacatlán, and the harmful effects that the local industrial corridor, located on the banks of the river that feeds it, has produced in the ecosystem, health, and lifestyle of this population.
Polgovsky, responsible for the cinephotography of the film, presents devastating images, which with equal crudeness discover the Santiago River, undoubted protagonist, covered by a white pollution foam that ominously rises in the air, as well as a small, victim of an aggressive dermatitis, consequence of the years that lived exposed to the toxic waste that emanate from the body of water. The rest of the town becomes a quasi-apocalyptic landscape, where houses, buildings, and fields have been stripped of their rural quaint, as the archive materials here used (ironically produced by a naive government instance) presume, and which now It has become difficult to imagine.
Unfortunately, the supposed clandestinity of the filming resulted in the use of cameras and sound recording devices with quality inferior to what is usually seen on cinema screens. In spite of this, the cinematographic work is rescued by the testimonies of the native settlers, who narrate with nostalgic bitterness a forgotten Juanacatlán and El Salto, snatched from their memory, as well as the constant activism carried out by their descendants, who between impotence and the longing they look for to return to that past that only they know by anecdotes and minuscule slides of his childhood.
Film of environmental complaint, necessarily transformed into a social complaint; stories of local problems, which concern everyone. Documentary that gives voice to those who insist on silence.
Virus tropical (2017)
Tropical Virus: window to the world of memories
Inspired by the graphic novel by the Colombian-Ecuadorian illustrator Power Paola, and directed by Santiago Caicedo, Tropical Virus shows us the life of the Gaviria family, seen from the perspective of the smallest member. From her unexpected birth, to the inevitable journey to reside in another country, our protagonist will face a series of events that will change her perception of the world that surrounds her.
At first, we came across a film that at a technical level may seem a little weak, although stylistically successful. The designs of characters and decorations transmit the essence of the original artwork, which with a mixture of affection and criticism presents the emotional impressions of what was the Quito and Cali of that time; however, the rhythm of the film is hampered by trying to include too many narrative elements, dialogues that do not flow freely, and an ending that leaves a lot to the imagination, denoting a lack of experience in the medium of animation in feature film format.
Even so, this cinematographic work offers a breath of fresh air to our billboard, as it is a foreign film (not American), animated, and with a female vision, which also touches on topics such as distance, coming of age, and the search of independence, in a way so close to our country.
Tropical Virus puts us in contact with an alien mind, whose life is so different and at the same time so similar to ours. A young spirit film that invites us to witness a nostalgic portrait of a broken family.
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Disney doesn't care for their audience anymore
I don't know if anyone had high expectations for this movie, but they'll be certainly disappointed. There is nothing original in this film, and technically is trash: the photography is mediocre, the editing was terrible, the acting was awful; and the songs, most of them are so lame even kids would feel too embarrassed to sing them.
Is a shame that Disney had everything to make a decent film (the budget was tremendous, the sets were fine, the cast could have been better) and the special effects were good in some parts) but miss their chance and decided to destroy the childhood memories of those who once loved Beauty and the Beast.
Maquinaria Panamericana (2016)
We rarely see this kind of films in Mexico
It seems that there is a logical contradiction in Mexican film studios, because it is inconceivable to them to perform a black comedy that features drama and at the same time reflects on the current state of our society. This is what the work of Joaquin del Paso, "Pan-American Machinery" achieves, a film that falls in absurd situations, but it is not an absurd movie, but rather a successful satire of the condition that we suffer most of we Mexicans suffer: our fixation with death. Throughout the plot the death of a character becomes unhappiness, motivation, pain, celebration, and finally, an ideology that governs an alienated society. I consider that this obsession for wanting to "honor" the dead, specially all the figures of great importance in our national history, has become banal, irreverent, since we are not able to recognize that as human beings, these heroes also had their faults, they also made mistakes, and yet the we continue to paint as almost divine beings. "Pan-American Machinery" manages to exhibit much in a short time. I think, as its title suggests, this film will become a referent of the cinema, not only for Mexico, but Latin American and America. All Pan- America.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Most Epic Batman film by one of the most epic movie Directors
What can I say? I love Christopher Nolan filmography and I love Batman. I think combining the two was one of the best choices of Warner Bros.
So here we are. The Dark Knigth, another superhero movie, but the thing is, this is not another superhero movie. The way it was narrated and filmed show us that no matter the genre, plot or characters, a good director will always deliver a good movie. The actor choice was another amazing element that helped to raise the thrill of this fantastic action film.
Is a 100% recommended that you watch this Batman film, even if you don't like Batman, but with the advice that you should watch the first one,Batman Begins, and now in 2014 and posterior dates the third and closing chapter The Dark Knight Rises. A collection that must be seen by anyone.