By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
It’s been a while since Alain Cavalier chose digital video (DV format) to shoot intimate personal mosaics, diaries of immense depth dealing with life, death, and things between.
By Mónica Delgado
Directed by the debutant Héléna Klotz, L’Age Atomique is a brief film that boards one of the most recurrent topics of independent cinema: adolescence and its digressions. Two boys riding a train to Paris appear on the scene. Alcohol and Red Bull, quotes to rock lyrics, music bands and poetes maldits: Elements that link us to that universe which exacerbates the “atomic age”; a sense of mockery, discovery, alienation and apathy.
Por Mónica Delgado
Déjame entrar (Låt den rätte komma in, 2008) es la tercera película de Tomas Alfredson y la primera que ví de su filmografía. Se trata de la historia de Oskar, un niño de 12 años, ensimismado, que recorta notas policiales de los periódicos y que es agredido diariamente por un grupo de estudiantes en el colegio, y que hace amistad con su nueva vecina, Eli, una niña vampiro de la misma edad.
By John A. Riley
At one point in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Kathy Burke’s dejected, alcoholic ex-secret service researcher is enthusing about the good old days. Gary Oldman’s George Smiley reminds her that she’s talking about the era of World War Two, and she responds, dewy-eyed: “a real war… Englishmen could be proud then.”
By Catherine Jessica Beed
Werner Herzog has always been interested in documenting the misfits of society, his films fascinated with outcasts and the complex extremities of human beings. With this project, Herzog draws to attention the very real and very sensitive matter of capital punishment, and further continues one of his journeys into exposing the human condition.
By Monica Delgado Sylvain George returns again to the black and white underworld of his previous documentary Qu’ils reposent en révolte (des figures de guerres), this
Por Mónica Delgado Festival films have practically become almost a genre of their own. And it is exactly within the tracking of these commonalities that
Por Mónica Delgado
Tabú es un filme de referencias al cine de antaño, un relato en dos partes marcadas («Paraíso perdido» y «Paraíso»). Es una oda a la nostalgia en blanco y negro, a la estética expresiva del cine silente, que cuenta con chispazos de humor brillante y una banda sonora sesentera y pop.
Directors:
Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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