In a passionate relationship, the defects of the beloved are relativized and love wins. That is why Tina, when discovering that Chris has the fuse a little shorter than most humans, begins to believe that there are several types of solutions for everyday problems in society, some more drastic than others. After all, even the most peaceful road trip has a few mishaps, in this case hilarious. Ben Wheatley delivers refined politeness lessons, sprinkled with blood, in a different approach compared to his previous film, Kill List, but which confirms with the same violence that he is a filmmaker with a voice that calls for attention. (M. M.)
Brillante Mendoza begins with a fabulous and stunning shot of a real birth. Mendoza tosses irony into the hands of a Filipino midwife, Shaleha (Nora Aunor) who, despite having helped hundreds of babies being born, is unable to have children. In a traditional, religious marriage like Shaleha and her husband’s, the continuity of the species is one of the conditions for true matrimonial happiness. The colors of the incredible scenery of the Philippines are so quiet as Shaleha, even when she embodies the crazy chimera of finding a woman to give a biological child to her husband, desire which seemed to have been mitigated by the adoption of his nephew. At the pace of their travels in transparent waters, we follow one by one the castings for a second marriage that ends the anguish of the midwife, much larger than her husband’s, we don’t know why. Shaleha discovers that to see this wish fulfilled, she will have to undergo further trials and ultimately she is not prepared to share love or for all the restlessness that comes with the birth of a child that is not hers. (M. M.)
During 6 days, competitores run as many miles as they can, day and night, stopping as little as possible to rest. Between hallucinating and hypnotic, the film penetrates into the essence of this meditative race. (M. C.)
A film as a confessional. People go to church, sit alone on a pew, pray to Jesus, who is everything to them: father and friend, savior and rescuer, guide and wailing wall. We meet a student who attends mass every day against his parents’ will. He spends all his free time in the church and tells Jesus everything, repents erotic fantasies as well as his dreams of being a hero. A retired chemistry teacher whose partner is cheating on her with another woman, in her prayers yearns for revenge. But isn’t revenge a sin? Like so many others, she comes to church to complain and to pray to Jesus for forgiveness. With formal rigor Ulrich Seidl presents six fragmentary portraits of six believers who ask questions and search for answers. Each of these stories opens an intimate space, permitting us a view of that which can be called God.
The work of Lewis Khlar unfolds between collages, cut-outs, an emotionally overwhelming musical choice and thematic consistency that resembles a Pandora’s box. Each new film or episode of a longer series cause an inexplicable disturbance. Khlar is surely one of the great artists of our time. (M. V.)
A rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin’s.
This film is about who I am and what I want. It’s NOT about who YOU are and what YOU want. You always think everything I make is about you but it’s not. It’s all about me‚Ķ..
In Before Sunset (2004), Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunited in Paris nine years after they had met on a train to Vienna (Before Sunrise, 1995). Now, 18 years after their first encounter, we find them in Greece, struggling with the issues of any normal relationship, wandering through beautiful european landscapes.
Who is Bozo Texino? is a film on the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. The project is the result of a 20-year study of “monikers ” and is fabricated from hours of 16mm and super 8 film, most of it shot on freight trips across the w
A group of Latino teenagers in South Central Los Angeles, instead of conforming to the hip hop culture of their gang infested neighborhood, wear tight pants, listen to punk rock, and ride their tricked out skateboards. Avoiding the violence of their dange
The film follows a hypothetical proposition: a group of astronauts are circling the earth in a spacecraft, but they cannot return, as our planet has become uninhabitable. The cause of this remains open – all-out war, outbreak of a new disease beyond contr
In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil.
Forty years on, Mr. Beane croaks his dying wish to Betty, his wife. “Go and find our lost son.” And so
