Bowie, Bowie, Bowie!
How to capture in a single documentary an elusive figure like David Bowie, who is associated with constant changes in personality, form and gender, personal and creative experimentation and crossing boundaries? Even more so than Brett Morgen’s mighty Kurt Cobain nonfiction ‘Cobain: Montage of the heck’ (2015), Brett Morgen’s new film abandons the factual approach in favor of an impressionist look; This is not a biography huge collage of clips from movies, television shows and concertspaintings, drawings, photographs, music videos, photo shoots, animation tracks, advertising campaigns and of course dozens of extraordinary songs played out loud.
His disinterest in expository clarity may be misleading his less motivated audiences, but undoubtedly his unorthodox position seems most respectful of an inexplicable artist we’ve always said is unstable and open to reinvention. Even though Morgen turns his back on her less friendly aspects doesn’t stop his honor—the drug addiction of the ’70s, his flirtations with Nazi iconography—while wrapping us in a cyclone of sights and sounds, presenting a polyhedral portrait of the fallible man often hiding behind an alien creature. ‘Moonage daydream’ has the potential to turn non-Bowie fans into Bowie fans and send the rest of us into ecstasy. Nando Salva
Diligence, respect and truth
Director Fernando Franco said that after the presentation of his film at the San Sebastián festival, he became aware because of the theme chosen: sexuality in a teenager with cerebral palsywas entering a garden, so being meticulous and respectful was essential. He accomplished more. ‘The Rite of Spring’ is not without respect and rigor when faced with a relationship as complex as that of Laura, a young woman living in a Madrid dorm during her university studies, and David, a paralyzed child brain. who’s friend? The film flows with meticulous attention to detail – the scenes they both lie in bed and listen to David’s chosen songs are beautiful – and the almost documentary rigor that Franco seeks from the very first moment with the complicity of Telmo Irureta, the protagonist with cerebral palsy.
Everything in the movie important fact –See the early conversations between the still bewildered Laura, played by Emma Suárez, and David’s mother–and truth is a key term for a movie with these traits to work without boasting about thesis or anything like that. Franco shows us the story and leaves enough room for the audience to reflect on the facts, doubts and emotions shown. Quim Casas
Effectively applied formula
To re-enact the judicial process against the military junta, which carried out countless atrocities when it ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983, Santiago Mitre’s new film focuses on both the person of prosecutor Julio César Strassera and the team of youth, brilliantly portrayed by Ricardo Darín. Lawyers whose quest for justice faces resistance from a country that still has too much to do with its gruesome past. And in the process, he without hesitation takes up all the narrative conventions typical of prototypical forensic melodrama: silent heroes willing to do anything in pursuit of the truthshocking testimonies, praise for teamwork, consecutive procedural mishaps, perfectly defined villains, cathartic latest speeches and the abundance of musical underlines in the soundtrack, among others.
In any case, ‘Argentina, 1985’ manages not to be insensitive or opportunistic, especially thanks to its ability to combine bureaucratic jargon with domestic moments and emotionally bitter scenes with unexpected doses of humor. And this is how he gets function with resounding efficiency as a reflection of the determination and courage needed to deliver justice, and as irrefutable proof that prosecuting criminal leaders is not only possible, but also a moral imperative and necessary for a country to heal its wounds. NS
pure childhood
Eskil Vogt is probably best known for Joachim Trier’s scripted ‘Olso’ from August 31 to ‘The World’s Worst Person’, for which he was nominated for an Oscar, but he is also responsible for one of the horror films. ‘Innocent’, one of the films that transcends the boundaries of bad feelings while handling childhood evil in its purest form by using the tools of fantastic cinema, is also extraordinary. The director can feed off many influences, but the truth is that a unique universein the relationship established between both places (Scandinavian residential environment) and telepathic powers and four main characters (one with autism) who are marked by a dichotomy between good and evil.
Innocents is a film with a cold, tense and gripping cadence. supernatural horror atmosphere in daily life. In fact, it may be a variation of superhero movies (in a quiet and mentally disturbing way), but it takes us into the dark realms of subversive cruelty, from a disturbing and unhealthy perspective that comes out brutally.
A nightmare in the daylight, a dark story about childhood and its moral awareness, it also speaks, in secret and vaguely, about social classes, racism (rich Aryans and poor racialized ones) in northern Europe through an observational screen. oscillating between mystery and abyss. Beatrice Martinez
Six children and a castle
Much of the action in ‘Bravehearts’ takes place in Chambord, a large and beautiful French castle on the Loire with an architecture that mixes French and Italian Renaissance styles. An ideal place to set a movie in some characters should be hidden from others, unnoticed between its large rooms, columns, stairs, balustrades and towers. The castle is another character in this movie about the escape of six Jewish children in occupied France in 1942. An art conservator manages to hide them in the now abandoned place where the paintings recovered from the Louvre are kept. but the Nazis covet these artifacts, especially those belonging to wealthy Jewish families, and come to the castle to retrieve them.
This bizarre game of cat and mouse lasts for most of the scene until the castle is no longer a safe place and is available to seek other hiding places. The movie begins to falter around these boys and girls being forced to learn in an extreme situation where they have no parents, no home, no childhood, when the characters no longer give in and some overly melodramatic influences appear. must live. quality control
Portrait of a Forger
Making a movie about a counterfeiter is a very appealing idea, isn’t it? An art evaluator comments on Kike Maíllo himself, perhaps thinking about the painting forgery in Orson Welles’ one such classic, ‘The Fraud’ (1973). Elmyr de Hory and pseudobiographical writer Clifford Irving. This novelistic appeal of the figure artist dedicated to copying other people’s work and selling them for a lot of money It’s implicit in the story that Maíllo follows around Oswald Aulestia Bach, another ‘glorious’ crook who has turned the FBI, Catalan and Italian police upside down for years.
When it comes to Maillo’s work, it all starts with the accidental discovery of a forgery of a Modigliani painting by this Oswald on a wooden tablet, and news circulating in 2018 about his case. From here, stretch the thread based on interviews with the ex-wife, brothers, the bragging forger himself as art experts, and archival material to bring one of the greatest fakes to light. Maíllo seems to constantly confirm the authenticity of his work, but the film’s procedure occasionally brings us closer to the spoof techniques, leaving us more curious about the character and story than we were before we saw the film. quality control