This week proves very useful for discovering new things, such as that Julio Iglesias has been exposed as a sexual myth by an infiltrated police officer, or that the king of Morocco works less than a blind photographer. So it may be that next Friday’s premieres also reveal something for you.
The former is one of the favorites for the Oscars as it has nine nominations. In that mixture of tenderness, humour, rurality and gray souls, the winning lot can be. Of course, how much intensity in the looks, how many revealing silences, how many steady shots out of nowhere you have to make to get to the front rows of the house that night in Los Angeles.
‘The Banshee in Inisherin’ stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson and is directed by the director of ‘An Advertisement on the Outskirts’ (2017). It takes us to another town like that, but this time of a rural Ireland closer to the cold of ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ (1970) than the colorful one of ‘The Quiet Man’ (1952). Some lifelong friends stop talking overnight and no one knows why. The story of one of them’s desperate attempts to become friends again and reveal the mystery of their sudden animosity is the excuse to delve into that peculiar microcosm whose “painteriness” is its greatest appeal.
There are directors who make their films a genre in themselves, such as Alfred Hitchcock. Therefore, “They knock at the door” is defined as one of Shyamalan’s. And it is that M. Night Shyamalan (who stunned us in 1999 with ‘The Sixth Sense’) has managed to have his own style, a cinema that makes you tense as you discover the horror of everyday life, and with a measured incorporating elements of magical realism.
A cabin in the middle of a forest welcomes a family under attack by four sinister characters who subject them to the most absurd blackmail: one of them must die to save the world (I don’t like that they steal Easter movie plots). . I think that the director put his previous works like ‘El bosque’ (2004), ‘El incidente’ (2008), ‘El protegido’ (2000) and ‘La visita’ (2013) in a blender and a work that maybe It’s probably the best of the last thing he’s done, which certainly isn’t saying much.
‘My friend’s friend’ is directed, written and performed by Zaida Carmona, in her thirties, who dares with her first feature film (and it shows). I suppose as a daughter of her time, who believes her life is exciting enough to tell it in real time on TikTok, Insta or WhatsApp, she also thinks that the rest of the world should find out what is happening to her, in an exercise of meta-reality interspersed with out-of-the-box romantic comedy. She’s the one trying to be funny by telling us about the various sexual-loving messes her friend group has in a long episode of “How I Met Your Father.” I hope that the prehistoric bill, like the first Almodóvar, is a servitude due to budgetary hardship and not a sought-after exercise in style.
The French Mortadelo and Philemon are Asterix and Obelix, and from time to time they let them leave the comic and become reality in some mediocre feature film, failing to live up to some masterpieces forged by their authors, Uderzo and Goscinny . In ‘Asterix and Obelix. The adventures of The Middle Kingdom take them to China (apocryphal in regards to the original comics), giving us yet another must-have movie piece that will make us crave more books.
The Feroz awards have remained off-camera, awards as unimportant as the election of the queen of a district’s festivities, but making headlines thanks to reports of sexual harassment. This has led us to ask ourselves a question: is this the end of the law of silence on these issues that governs Spanish cinema?
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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