By Mónica Delgado
Unlike other Dardenne brothers’ films, Marion Cotillard’s charácter becomes the essential piece, the engine, the soul, the life of Two Days, One Night. If in their previous films all the characters articulate themselves in a sort of social micro cosmos, here the variation is different.
By Mónica Delgado
To film the immediacy of revolution, from its newsreel aspect but not really like it. Before everything, Ucranian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa seems to be in this sort of Comanche territory, where the mysticism of registry is evidenced in the two and a half hours of footage of Maïdan.
By Mónica Delgado
When did the young left their aspirations and how did their longing was tossed to the water in a veil of alienation and inaction? Going beyond the consequences of unemployment and economic crisis in Spain, what Jaime Rosales shows in the development of his film is an inquiry, from certain keys, of the motivations of two characters in their experience of being parents, despite their twenty years of more, through the strike and living on expenses of chance and money falling from the sky.
By Mónica Delgado
We’ve seen Doona Bae, the Korean actress in several roles, but none like this in A girl at my door, by debutant July Jung. From Linda, Linda, Linda to The Host or Air Doll, this actress has show an evolution but always coming from the independent scene of her country, and going through roles where she’s presented in a passive character and resigned from certain situations.
By Mónica Delgado
Lisandro Alonso has taken to a new level that old invention of the land of treasures and unimaginable happiness, the torture of conquistadores and travelers, whose myth was part of the Spanish “romancero” of the XVII century, and that under the influence of the daydream becomes something more than a desired country of Jauja.
By Mónica Delgado
The arcade is frequented by an adolescent girl, despite that both parents, both beekeepers which make the best honey in town, establish their own rules and habits. This girl, about fourteen years old, takes the control of the house, and archetypical family space life with specific routines, receiving the affection of her ill-tempered and bossy father, the advice of the sweet mother, the caring of the irreverent aunt and the naïve games of the three younger sisters.
By Mónica Delgado Frederick Wiseman fixation for registering diverse institutional power mechanisms, above all, cultural and political (universities, hospitals, schools, stations, in America and Europe,
By Mónica Delgado
Winter Sleep is plagued by that bergmanian invention called “the hour of the wolf”. As if the conversations by half-light imply always a renounce and decisive revelations, the fall of the masks that invite change or imprisonment in the characters.
By Mónica Delgado A film of stylized suspense, about the search of clues and the resolution of a crime, based in a Georges Simenon novel,
By Mónica Delgado
Argentinian filmmaker Damián Szifrón’s Relatos Salvajes breaks with the festival film prototype designed especially for Cannes, or in other case, proposes a new route: that of black b series humour, as if it were a tape of eighties’ spirited episodes, but with a social critique intention and mockery in an actual national key.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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