He takes the characters and places them ten years later, living that Roussonian nativeness of the noble savage
As I always tell you, despite the unfair competition from our politicians, the cinemas are open, the perfect truce for Christmas shopping and presenting stories to entertain us. At least until James Cameron decided that an ‘Avatar’ wasn’t enough and he put the one with the most votes in our chambers to be number one of the year, which is why almost no one has dared to release it today.
‘Avatar’ (2009) is the highest-grossing film in history (and we still believe there is intelligent life on this planet). It raised three billion dollars, a figure that there are months when Qatar fails to pay its pocket MEPs. Each of those dollars is responsible for giving rise to a second installment titled, in a burst of originality, “Avatar: The Sense of Water,” which retains that touch of New Age environmentalism.
The actors of the first, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, repeat, and I seem to recall that Weaver died at the disastrous start of the series (yes, Cameron threatens to make three more, and I fear the cruel using Putin against the Ukrainians). He takes the characters and places them ten years later, living that Roussonian nativeness of the noble savage. But of course cowboy and Indian movies (which is what ‘Avatar’ is in essence) have to have war to be interesting. By the way without success.
The technical expertise of 3D and the luminous images are a bubble that contains nothing but nothing. That’s why you ask yourself three questions afterwards: “what did they spend the two hundred and fifty million euros that it cost?”, “why does the torture have to last longer than three hours?” and finally, “what necessity was there to commit it?”
All mankind owes René Goscinny comic book scripts as masterful as those for ‘Asterix and Cleopatra’ or ‘Asterix Legionario’, but also because he was the creator of some cartoons from the fifties called ‘Little Nicholas’ (now know je why This is the name given to the villain in his twenties of the ‘fachaleco’ who goes in and out of the courts). He did it in connection with the clean lines of cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé.
This child’s popularity between mischievous and anarchist is a little far off for us Spaniards, and that’s what could happen with this movie, despite approaching the character in an original way with a meta-comic that crosses the drawn Nicolás with are authors in an interface between reality and fiction. The use of watercolor to represent the film’s animation seems like a success to me, as it is the perfect texture to convey that faint, dreamy and light line that separates both worlds. More than recommended for children and adults.
‘Aftersun’ is an intimate film, well shot and with a lot of background, just like ‘Summer 1993’. Both are debut works by talented directors; both speak with nostalgia and sepia of a summer that has remained anchored in the souls of adults; both using superb photography, as evocative as it is at the same time in the service of history; and both show tremendous affection for their characters.
In the work they give us today, we travel twenty years ago to discover the seemingly careless description, like Super 8, of a vacation for a girl and her father, and how it marked her entire life, to the point that since then everything goes through that sieve. Fine and undoubtedly Rohmerian half-blood daughter. Imperfectly perfect, as everyone’s life is.
Off camera are the events of corruption in the European Parliament and the failed coup in Peru. That’s what led me to recommend Filmin’s fun and surreal series ‘Parliament’, about the adventures of an assistant in the European legislature. But also one of the best books by one of the best Spanish writers of all time, Vargas Llosa, and his ‘Conversation in the Cathedral’, with the famous opening line “when was Peru screwed?” (few of those who quote it will have read the book). When life imitates art, everything is better understood.
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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