Today is one of those rare Fridays when I can’t find an excellent movie to call the article I torture you with every week. It’s like having to choose between different Hacendado products. Remains the consolation that a cinema remains the best refuge from this persistent winter, no matter what they put on.
Since you have to start somewhere, I’ll do it with a normal thriller called ‘Missing’ (nothing to do with the Costa-Gavras movie of the same name). A mother of a teenage daughter disappears on a trip to Colombia with her new boyfriend, leaving the girl defenseless and without answers. The abduction is not known if it is a kidnapping, and soon the girl discovers things about her pregnant parent (let’s get into fashion, later they call me carca) that she doesn’t like, so everything gets mixed up.
But what’s new is that the research the daughter is doing is similar to what Jules Verne would do, that is, she doesn’t move from home, and she does it thanks to new technologies. The use of these broken computer screens to instill fear in the viewer, of chats to cloud the plot, and of actions that take place outside of the camera shot, was disturbing a few years ago but has been abused too much. A film that looks better than the result.
If the heroic Ukrainians have survived a year of Russian invasion, we can endure a new French comedy, the so-called tender “Rumba therapy”, a feature film that, like poultices, makes life more comfortable but doesn’t even stink. does not stand out and does not continue.
Do you remember ‘La tribu’ (2018) with Carmen Machi and Paco León? There, through dancing and a rediscovered mother, a ruthless businessman turned into a decent person. In this film, he is a human disaster, an anarchist, a 21st century Max Estrella, the one who, after a major health crisis, decides that he wants to get his daughter back, but he can only do so by infiltrating the rumba classes that she gives. . It’s a more predictable ‘movie’ than a Madrid comeback in the Champions League.
‘Till, the crime that changes everything’ is a racial drama based on (the dreaded) true events set in the deep and segregated South of the United States in the 1950s, where a mother’s African-American teenage son is lynched. . It was then that she began to fight so that indifference would not continue to prevail in the face of these events, changing the American conscience.
Despite what has been said before, it does not fall into sentimentality and verismo is supported by a more than correct historical setting. An awareness-raising film with the poster of a prestigious ‘TV movie’, with good performances and a direction by actors who know how to get the best out of them.
From the average mental age of racists, we go with ‘Irati’ to the real one. This is the low audience movie that kept getting nominated at the Goya gala without anyone knowing what it was. What it was is the adaptation of an 8th century Basque legend about a son who must avenge his father, all told between magic and reality with the cold, harsh and green Pyrenean landscape in the background. An interesting cinematic postcard.
Spanish animation has always had artistic power and a remarkable graphic quality once again demonstrated in the latest of its releases: ‘Mummy’ (or mummified person, according to the British Museum’s corny politically correct). The downside is that this story of a hidden city populated by mummies, of the adventures of three of them when they go to the world of the living, and of a predatory archaeologist, falls short of the talent of its cartoonists.
Off camera, I must express my outrage at the demeaning cancellation culture now attacking Roald Dhal’s work. Because of the prejudices of our time, he tries to protect the defenseless brains of children, which need no defense of good literature, by amputating and disfiguring their stories. Little is left for Don Quixote to turn a lance into a gladiolus, dispense with the mistreated greyhound, Sancho to be a person of robust complexion and the adventure of the gypsies erased from the new editions. True things, friend Sancho!
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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