Today we can use the phosphorescent highlighter to highlight interesting releases not to be missed, something that is becoming rarer than finding an autumn day in November.
Someone in Hollywood had $200 million and was thinking of making a superhero movie without a superhero, what could go wrong? Well, what came out was ‘Black Phantom: Wakanda forever’. And it’s that Black Phantom has died in fiction (and in real life, ever since the actor who played him, Chadwick Boseman, died of a devastating cancer), and much of a failed movie revolves around that. It focuses on the characters who surrounded him and the country he ruled, Wakanda (it has its own entry on Wikipedia, this world is going to gargle). But it’s not enough and it shows that the center of the action is missing.
There was a lot of money at stake to be able to stop production for something as inappropriate and inconvenient as a death, and that is that every minute of the movie cost $1.2 million, and that’s a lot of minutes. The bad thing is that the story, almost bellicose, of defending that imaginary African country against the extremely valuable mineral vibranium, is inconclusive and remains one of the weakest in the series. The lesson we need to learn is that no matter how much we love these movies, not everything goes, not everything works, and not everything works.
The next one is directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who already starred with ‘The Kingdom’ (2019), and is undoubtedly one of the best Spanish films of the year. ‘As bestas’ is set in the Galician countryside, where the arrival of Wi-Fi and electric cars only gives a veneer that barely hides an anxious closed world, where a French couple discovers the claustrophobic pressure of the villagers (they have the same affection for them as Iglesias does for Yolanda Diaz). Outsiders who want to pose as locals, but the natives are unwilling to allow the alleged usurpation. It reminded me of what happened to the family in ‘La barraca’, Blasco Ibáñez’s classic, who worked the land forbidden by the Huertanos.
Based on real events, here the violence is caused by a look more than a gun, a silence more than an insult, a smile more than a frown, told with a strong narrative pulse, with scenic asceticism, that keeps you tense to exhaustion, with the body uncomfortably in the chair. This is greatly aided by a sombre photo that makes the idyllic landscapes of the Xacobeo ad the suburban teardrop that featured all the tragedies of “An Ad in the Suburbs” (2017). Costumbrismo hid a great thriller.
Fernando León de Aranoa, a director of untapped talent, has been filming the most villainous of lords and the most lord of villains for over a decade. The distillation of that work is what the documentary, supposedly non-fictional, offers us ‘Sintilo mucho’ about singer Joaquín Sabina.
Close to the hagiography of the sympathetic villain, of the father we would not like but would like to be a friend of our parents, he leads us through his travels and nostalgia, to his nights without early mornings and his inspiration without muse. He gives us a tour of Melancolía Street in the hands of the educated reader of old books, the heavy smoker of secondhand smoke, and the inveterate womanizer without Viagra. When she’s old enough to be “ex” in almost everything, she plays with her legend, though she leaves us wondering if she’s a trained beast or a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Of course he leaves us a good trail of those songs of his that you know navigate between the warm elegance of Audrey Hepburn and the appealing rudeness of María Jiménez. Only suitable for mythomaniacs.
Last week, ‘One Pice movie: red’ was omitted due to space constraints (don’t think bad). Japanese animation that is delightful geekiness in its purest form. It lives up to the canons of the genre, with its lights to warn epileptics about and music to warn anyone who isn’t deaf. The plot is something like the most famous singer in the world, Uta, is going to give her first live concert, but a big revelation will change everything. It’s too far off my radar.
Off camera was my guilty pleasure. Dozens of Christmas movies are starting to pay off on television platforms. Most are television movies come to more. Ridiculous stories, with one-dimensional characters and predictable endings. But I recognize that I am one of those who will see Reyes whole from here. It is what it must be even more of a Christmas fan than El Corte Inglés.
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad

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