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40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic (2020)
Always Rocky
I have a friend at Buenos Aires named Rocky Balboa, too. He's a friend from the movies. We spent together almost forty-five years, and I think he'll be my friend beyond death becomes to us. I truly believe in it. This little gem is not about «Rocky», it's about how John G. Avildsen saw his little picture during the making, and Sylvester Stallone enjoys his dream of making it. That's not original but that's not boring, because it's an intimate close capture of period, work, and life. See it!
El campeón del mundo (2019)
The most strong man in the world
This movie brings clear the father's legacy for his son, because the observation of our lives by another one is a matter for brave men. And a brave man allows his contradictions to the surface, too. That's EL CAMPEÓN DEL MUNDO, a documentary feature about a human being who don't hide when life urges him to be a man.
Takara - La nuit où j'ai nagé (2017)
In the cold melancholy of our childhood
Luckily there are some people who appeal to film and sensitivity to narrate their movies. Like Kohei Igarashi and Damien Manivel, who return us to the pleasure of observing, understanding and explaining, without words, the sensations that cold provokes in our bodies or the idea of miss daddy so much.
The Disappeared (2018)
Blind seeing, see deepest things
THE DISAPPEARED is a black screen, like the lonely presence of a man who fades from our surroundigs . The experimental documentary by Gilad Balam and Adam Kaplan takes up the issue of a film filmed by the Israeli army in the late 1990s, made it with the intention of prevent young soldiers' suicides, and for some reason the army itself censured it and nobody, never, could see an one and only frame. The film is narrated in the present and in a great flashback, but (except during the reading of two scenes of the script, in which the screen is white, at the beginning and at the end) the no-image? never prevents reflection on art, politics and repression. Much less extreme than it seems, much more complex than its simplicity, witnessing it should be an indispensable action to unravel what is the scope of true cinema, that in a dark room you change your look to the world, perhaps forever.
April 31st (2010)
Pure joy in this generous and fascinating film
If I'd been a teenager in the 90's, would I have experimented making videos with my friends, creating the Potent Avenger? Would I have realized the line that divides documentary from fiction? Would I have lived my life filming everything? Would that have been happiness? That's evident in the Victor Cubillos' case, a young Chilean film director that died in Germany, whose life is forever preserved in VHS, in a wardrobe next to the great cinematic classics, and whose life is celebrated by his half brother, Cristian. Poor Victor Cubillos, dying so violently and so far from home
.but, that's life
what can you do? In death, can you show the country in which you lived without a sense of pity? Can you be sarcastic about the city you grew up in without being offensive? Can you poke fun at family institutions without hurting those that loved you? Can you cheat death? Of course you can, through the editing process and behind a camera.
More than found footage, April 31st, reinforces the idea that history is a prism lit by personal experience. Docu-fiction, documentary, mockumentary, filmed diary, talking heads, anthropological film, ethnographic film, video ... Can a single movie be all that? Of course, if you have the rebellious talent of Victor Cubillos, unraveling the past, discovering what you are today, and laughing out loud at the future. Víctor Cubillos left everyone with something: joy. And he left this generous and absolutely fascinating film.