This is one of those weeks where we should be happy to be Spaniards, not just because the Russians haven’t fired missiles at us (yet), but because we don’t have a prime minister with manners, shapes and manners of Magaluf, like the boys of the Jubilee. Movie buffs should also rejoice as a great show, because one of those vehicles arrives exclusively to entertain the producers and fill the pockets (that’s why the movie was invented).
That is the noble aim of ‘ Jurassic World: Dominion ‘, the sixth part of this saga that began thirty years ago at the hands of Steven Spielberg. The reason for this longevity is that it respects itself, maintains a unique style and a storyline that connects them, which is a success. No one pays a ticket six times to see essentially the same thing; wants surprises.
In fact, here, like the alleged swan song, everything has gone a step further, with a world where humans have to live with the dinosaurs for the first time. As if that wasn’t enough, they decided to throw a big farewell party where all the main characters of the movies are invited. The newer (and weaker) Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by the more than solvent Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill. In addition to the exhibitors doing conga with this movie, I suggest you get in line to see it. Don’t expect to see it reduced to a small tablet screen or fifty centimeters from your living room, it would be an offense for such a special effects display.
Benedict Cumberbatch (we used to say ‘Sherlock’, but that ‘hashtag’ has already transcended) and Claire Foy (the first Elizabeth II of ‘The Crown’) are probably the best British actors of their respective generations, so it’s a gift for the view of being able to have them in the same lane.
‘Mr Wain’ is on the antipodes of the previous one. It is an intimate nineteenth-century drama, with restrained feelings, very ‘British’. It tells us the life of a famous and royal painter of the time, peculiar in his perception of beauty and love for his wife. Absolutely charming archetypal English film. But beware, as they said in the novel “Brideshead Revisited” in the mouth of the upstart Anthony Blanche, charm is the worst disease of the English, the invisible rot of their society.
Carmen Machi plays great as usual in “The Volunteer,” one of those dramatic roles she’s so good at. Here she plays a retired doctor who decides to volunteer at a refugee camp in Greece. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that happens to her, turned into a weary soul who thinks he can rewrite the rules. That’s what happens when you use saving someone as an excuse to save yourself.
I will be reductionist and say that the French ‘Tenor’, the comedy I’m going to talk about, is an opera ‘Billy Elliot’, but with more laughter. Here we also have a boy of humble origin, who instead of living in a mining town lives in a run-down suburb, who finds the golden ticket to another world when they start teaching him how to transform from rapper to tenor. That clashes of course in the two worlds, his and the other. Besides, there is also a dedicated teacher to help him and break through prejudices (watch myself, if I do plagiarism, I have to hide more).
The highlight of the week is Penelope Cruz winning the 2022 National Film Award, proving that tenacity is better than talent (I’ve always underestimated her, as happened to me with broccoli, ice cream from heaven or Juanma Moreno). His best works: ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ (2008), which earned him his Oscar; ‘Belle Epoque’ (1992); ‘All about my mother’ (1999); and for me his most rounded interpretation, that of ‘Pain and glory’ (2019).
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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