Spain has always been the land of contradictions, that’s why the return of an emeritus king isn’t even ‘trendy’, we celebrate Labor Day without working and April fair looks like the M-30 of Congress of Deputies. So it’s okay if this week’s news features a hunk with a gun, a 3D idiot, a landowner saint, an anti-Nazi John McClane, and two meddlesome caretakers. The anabolic series ‘La casa de papel’ (Netflix) showed us robbers so sophisticated, smart and righteous that you put yourself on their side and so, comfortably on the couch, we eased our hypocritical partisan conscience. In ‘Fatum’ they try to do the same but in a gratefully short 91 minutes instead of five endless seasons. That brevity is its greatest virtue, as it doesn’t get bogged down in nonsense and addresses from the start the problems of a gambler forced into a robbery, the moral dilemma of a police officer and the truncated plans of some violent thieves. Maximum tension with Arón Piper, Elena Anaya and the actor’s equivalent of what is ‘Save me’ on Tele 5, the ubiquitous Luis Tosar. Actor Joaquin Phonix competes with Nicolas Cage for the top score on my hostility scale. He stars in ‘Beau is afraid’, a fantasy film (not fantastic) with echoes of ‘Everything everywhere at once’. He plays a middle-aged man with more difficulty than Trump with the law and a slightly deranged mind (he also sounds like Trump in this). Meeting his mother will send him into a permanent nightmare. To mark my dear Nathan Lane’s piece of paper. A film that would have been better if it had chosen comedy (and a different actor). ‘Sisu’ is a Finnish word meaning heroic resistance (or something like that according to the film’s press department). It is actually an expensive, very violent action film that tells of a gold miner’s struggle against Nazi invaders in Finland during World War II. A film so simple that even if we watched it in its original language without subtitles, we would have discovered the same thing. It’s like a Nazi busting video game, with more ways to kill than ways to cook the chicken, with Western charms and Tarantino-esque dynamics. I inform you that it flooded the Sitges festival, if that is of any use. Antonia María de Oviedo is a real character, a 19th century baby governess who decides to devote her time to rescuing women from prostitution. At the same time, ‘Si todas las puertas se cerrar’ tells us a story set in our time but with a similar theme. The coincidences in time do not fit as well as in ‘Las horas’ (2002), but share her feminist spirit and the strength of her actresses. There is no Friday without Spanish costumbrismo. Pepa Aniorte from Murcia (turned into the modern Gracita Morales of our cinema and television) is the best part in ‘Los buenos modales’ doing the choirs for two experienced and great artists like Elena Irureta and Gloria Muñoz. Here they play two sisters who hate each other, but who are determined to reconcile the girls who take care of their grandchildren. Thank goodness they keep a somewhat mediocre production where laughing and crying mix. To conclude, I bring you a very creditable movie because it came out of some Ukrainian animation studios, and for that reason alone it deserves to be seen (even if it is that they have more money to defend themselves. Sorry Lula). It is a story where the magical guardian of the forest has to decide between leaving the world she loves or going to another one to love someone who is her whole world. It is a terrestrial little mermaid in the Puck scenario of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Off camera, I can’t stop commenting that actress Meryl Streep won the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts. Arguably the greatest actress Hollywood has produced since Katherine Hepburn, because of her versatility, her presence and her intelligence. A success. Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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