We’re already in December and Christmas is everywhere (despite Leticia Sabater’s attempts to destroy it). When you look back at the premieres of this Friday, you will see that we already have the taste of nougat in our mouths.
The first movie novelty is set in summer, but the ghost is definitely Christmassy and part of Torrentino Santiago Segura’s reincarnation as a scout camp monitor. Following the scheme of all his “parents that there is only one”, in ‘A todo tren 2: ahora son ellas’ he returns to the children and characters of ‘A todo tren: destino Asturias’ (the most watched Spanish movie in 2021). The result is family entertainment, white and borderless.
Paz Padilla and Paz Vega are the focus of this sequel, and they are the ones who now leave the abandoned children on a train, like ‘Home Alone’ (1990) but in the Talgo. The only thing that’s different, even if you don’t notice it, is that Segura isn’t directing it. But his touch and good eye as a producer, in this vein of cinema for all audiences that has been abandoned in Spain, is very present. Ideal for a crazy afternoon of the aqueduct coming our way.
A Santa turned into John McClane; a Crystal Jungle in a Christmas outfit; a 007 with a vow of chastity. All this is the action movie “Silent Night”, in which Santa Claus is so indignant with the bad guys that instead of gifts, he ends up handing out shots and sowing corpses in socks. And it is that messing with a man on the only night of the year when he works is not a good idea, he is usually not in a good mood.
David Harbour, the rowdy sheriff from ‘Stranger Things’, plays the rowdy Santa Claus, who drinks beer instead of milk and has to help a girl from a wealthy family kidnapped by mercenaries (‘Breaking the House’ mode). ‘). You have to be as indulgent as a wizard king and see it with the illusion of a child on Christmas Day to enjoy it without complexes.
When you go to a Michelin star restaurant, you have two feelings: the fear that you will not like the food and the fear that they will rip you off. The protagonists of ‘El menú’ are satisfied with both. They discover that when you go to a dinner, on a remote island, in an exclusive restaurant, surrounded by rich people, and you become part of that dinner, those feelings come true.
A Ralph Fiennes playing a psychopathic chef (MasterChef’s have a long way to go) is the key ingredient of this moral fable: class metaphor, terror with a message? I don’t know, you have to see it to find out. What it most resembles is ‘The Hunger Games’, but mixed with the bourgeoisie trapped in Buñuel’s claustrophobic ‘The Exterminating Angel’. A film with the right dose of transgression.
When I was a teenager in the last century, I had a friend who freaked out about discovering the genius of cosmic terror, HP Lovecraft. A writer with a literary work as dark and enigmatic as himself. Now comes an adaptation of one of his stories directed by genre specialist Jaume Balagueró. A movie that starts out as a thriller and turns somewhat supernatural, follows a girl who steals drugs and is chased until she takes refuge in a sinister building. A perverse story without concessions.
Off camera, the nominations for the Goya awards have been announced. It is striking that there are new names and new ways of telling that promise a good future for our cinema. This year’s film production is of unusually high quality, which is why both the rural thriller ‘As bestas’ (17 nominations) and the intimate ‘Alcarrás’ or ‘Cinco lobitos’ (11 possible awards) deserve to win. On February 11 we have the answer (make sure you have a good pillow).
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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