As it should be, we’ve started the bridging season as a warrior, watching the Legion’s goat parade. We list the final turns of 2022 with some premieres that prepare us for what’s coming (I can imagine that’s why there is no comedy).
There are movies that are rated as 90 minutes in length. Such is the case with ‘Halloween: The End’ (for what it contributes they could have made a short film). And that the immense Jamie Lee Curtis once again stars in a sequel to this saga, which lifted her up more years ago than she likes to remember. Here he confronts again, and there are thirteen times, with the murderer Michael Myers and his echoes turned into nightmares. And it is that, as the Catechism said, evil never rests.
Curtis is one of the few cases where the producers, who you already know that thirty is the new sixty for actresses, have managed to maintain a decent career despite the macho casting directors. Here we see her fight like a lioness and get the best of a movie that doesn’t try to surprise, just scare and make money. The truth is that the formula is repeated more than garlic and yet it is certain that this 12 + 1 will not be the last, whatever the title says, as its followers will soon be heading to the theaters.
Now it’s time to talk about the adaptation of an Italian comic whose protagonist gives the film its name, ‘Diabolik’. A white-collar thief whose main idiosyncrasy is his disguises, a Mortadelo but handsome and serious.
It’s a curious Italian intrigue about the theft of a jewel, something not very new and that means we don’t leave everything behind to go to the movies. But the main character’s presentation leaves enough unknowns to be attractive, almost as much as a staging that takes us back to the most stylish of the 1960s, that decade when they say that if you remember, you it was there. His closest reference is the Pink Panther movies, but without that absurd humor.
Jaime Rosales is one of those Spanish directors who are as much a minority among the public as they are widely acclaimed. His feature film ‘La Soledad’, for example, won the Goya for Best Film in 2007, but only raised 200,000 euros (the audience almost fit into the reception of the Royal Palace). His penchant for tragedies does not help, neither his too intense gaze, nor the introspection of his characters.
This Friday’s powerful drama is ‘Wild Sunflowers’. Starring one of the best young Spanish actresses, Anna Castillo, who keeps the story of this young mother on her shoulders with her movements with men, with her friends and with her family. Perhaps, under this fake realism Rosales wants to show us, he comes to the right conclusion that in order to be healthy, you must first be good with yourself. The director does not sign his best work.
‘Cerdita’ is a short come to more. A film that reinforces a short history that has already been shown at festivals. Here’s an overweight girl who gets the usual affection and understanding from her skinny companions every time she goes to the pool (Rousseau was drunk when he wrote that man is naturally good). What he tells us is what happens when he gets tired of feeling like the brown pyramidal emoji with eyes.
But one fine day something happens in his town, where nothing ever happens. His charming stalkers disappear. Looks like someone is doing him justice. What remains is a great thriller between ‘The Minimal Island’ (2014) and ‘Carrie’ (1976) that will leave us feeling guilty for understanding the bad guys. That’s how revenge is sometimes.
Off-camera, and at the age of 96, Angela Lansbury has passed away. He never became a big Hollywood star, but he did become one of the theater, television or cinema spectators. One of my favorites without a doubt. She’s one of those artists who, like Cary Grant, has always done a great job for herself. If you want to see her in the prehistory of Jessica Fletcher’s role in the ‘Murder She Wrote’ series, you need to check out the version of an Agatha Christie novel, ‘The Broken Mirror’ (1980), with an unrepeatable cast.
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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