I’ve been writing since the first cold of the year, so it’s lucky you never expect much from these articles, because drugs make me even more stupid (I just hope they’re more effective than the Russian army). Let’s start with the premieres of the week we have a lot of iron.
Daniel Craig arrives Wednesday as a baffling and dim-witted detective tasked with solving a crime in Knives in the Back: The Mystery of the Glass Onion. It is a sequel to the 2019 Netflix premiere that was successful for its combination of humor, murder, suspense and mystery, washed down with generous doses of good actors. The problem is we only have a week to see it on the big screen, which I always recommend, because after that they reserve it for the small screen in our living rooms (they don’t do it out of kindness but because releasing it in theaters is the any way to be eligible for prizes).
But what’s important to us is that this second part lives up to the first, even if Ana de Armas doesn’t come out, and we hope it’s as fun and entertaining as that part. A game of Cluedo elevated to the luxury of a yacht and a villa (who wants to see a murder committed in social housing?).
Resolving a historical injustice with the Three Kings is what ‘Kings against Santa Claus’ does. The January 6 monarchists identify with them in this family Christmas movie (they’ve always been at a disadvantage, La Casera’s marketing is worse than Coca Cola’s). Karra Elejalde has finished this story where luckily the kings win and not the impostor in a red suit, and they even rescue a kidnapped Santa Claus. The director is a craftsman who solves it professionally, but one cannot help thinking how far this film would have gone in the hands of someone who believed one hundred percent in family entertainment, such as a Santiago Segura in a version for all audiences.
There was a time when a Mel Gibson movie (what curly hair) would have headlined this article, but those days are over. However, that never happened with the other protagonist of ‘The Perfect Robber’, Josh Duhamel (a star who fell by the wayside). Here, inspired by the well-known real events, he plays a robber of dozens of banks, elegant and cunning. A story so incredible it must be true, spiced up with a dose of action.
Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins are the group leaders of ‘Armaggedon time’ (the title Trump will have given the last election). A drama written and directed by James Gray with an autobiographical content, as it places us in the 1980s and in the friendship between a Jewish teenager and another black (in Spain that word can still be used, I think), and how that made him discover the racial discrimination and confront it. An interesting feature film that makes you think but with a lot of drama.
Today’s controversial film, because it does not follow the line of normalized thinking, is ‘La maternal’. But his good tone and better judgment avoid possible criticism, especially since he does not practice Manichaeism or pontificates. A Spanish drama about a pregnant teenager who decides to have her child. The excellent director Pilar Palomero once again shows her delicate sensitivity to adolescent stories, as she already showed in ‘Las niñas’. Only in French cinema have I seen the age of size S so well. A hard story but full of humanity.
“Honey, How I Hate You” is an adaptation of an easy bestseller, the kind of book with the cover of pink letters that evokes all my prejudices when I see them in the bookstore. An outlet romantic comedy (like our penal code), where, to no one’s surprise, two rivals at work get involved. If your ‘What do women think?’ (2000), precisely by Gibson, you discover little why it is the same but with worse actors.
Off camera, the 51st edition of the Cartagena International Film Festival (FICC) starts on Sunday. A very good excuse to visit that city and enjoy the careful selection of independent films that the FICC offers us.
May you have a week, and a FICC, of cinema.
Source: La Verdad
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